



Ci)Fn{IGHT DEPOSIT. 




HISTORY 



OF THE — 



TTZSTEIiFTH REGIMENT 

Pennsylvania Reserve Volnnteer Corps 



(41ST REGIMENT OF THE LINE), 



FROM ITS — 



Muster into the United States Service, August lOtli, 1861, to its 
Muster Out, June lltli, 1864, 



TOGETHER WITH 



BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF OFFICERS AND MEN AND 
A COMPLETE MUSTER-OUT ROLL. 



Compiled from Official Reports, Letters, and Other Documents. 



— BY — 



M. D. HARDIN, 

Brig. Gen. U. S. Army {retired), late Col. ISth Reserves. 



NEW YORK : 
PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOIfc.GMf '"^^^ 

1890. ( AUrl9 lfi9i I^VX- 



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COPTBISHTBD, 1891 

bt martin D. HAKDIN. 



TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER. 
I 

II 

III 

IV 

V 

VI 

VII 



Organization of PennsyWania Reserve Volunteer Corps, 
Camp Life at Tennallytown and Camp Pierpont, 
Battle of Dranesville, December 20, 1861, . - - - 

Peninsula Campaign (before arrival of the Reserves), - 

Battle of Mechanicsville, June 26, 1862, 

Gaines' Mill, Allen's Farm and Savage Station, - 

Battle of New Market Cross Roads, 

Battle of Malvern Hill, July 1, 1862, and Harrison's Landing, 

July 2 to August 11, 1862, 

General Pope's Campaign, 

South Mountam, Antietam and Fredericksburg, - 

Gettysburg Campaign, 

Bristoe Station, Rappahannock Station and Mine Run, - XII 

Grant's Campaign, Wilderness and Spottsylvania, - - - XIII 

IT TV 
North Anna and Bethesda Church, ^^ ^ 

XV 
Biographies and Miscellaneous Papers, -^^ 



VIII 

IX 

X 

XI 



Dranesville (opposite 1st page), HI 

ii V 

Mechanicsville . - - 

New Market X Roads " " '^- 

Second Bull Run Camp. " " .... IX 

South Mountain " " X 

Antietam (opposite 2d p ... X 

Fredericksburg " 3d 

Bristoe Station " 1st 

North Anna " " 

Bethesda Church " 2d 

General map " last 



X 
XII 
XIV 
XIV 
XIV 



ElSTG-T^.A.'VIlSra-S. 



Frontispiece, 



Facing 1st page, Chapter XV, 



Facing last page, Chapter XV, 



IDiven, Grim, 

Hardin, 
Gustin, Clark. 



I Lucas. Hazzard, 

Briggs, Thomas, 
Croasdale, Hoadley, 

Schelling, Jewell, Snyder, 

Oliver, Weaver, Myers, 
Elder. Rohn. FackenthaL 




|HE WEITER is indebted to Colonel J. H. Taggart for infor- 
mation furnished; to Major Lucas for much useful informa- 
tion, particularly in relation to "C" Company, also for 
addresses of officers and men of several companies ; to Colonel Hazzard 
for information relating to " F " and " I " Companies, and for biograph- 
ical notices, etc.; to both Colonel Hazzard and Major Lucas for 
encouragement in his work; to Hon. J. P. GUes for valuable and inter- 
esting information relating to " I " Company, Twelfth (" D " 190 Penn.), 
which the writer could not otherwise have obtained; to Lieut^iant W. 
R. Peacock (First Lieutenant 190 Penn.) for much assistance in account- 
ing for final discharge of members of Twelfth Regiment who re-enlisted 
as Veterans; to Captain Schelling for valuable notes on the war; to 
Lieutenant F. D. Stevens for much assistance in accounting for 
members of "I" Company ("D" 190 Penn.), whose muster-out roll 
was very defective; to George H. Mason, of "C " Company, for inter- 
esting notes ; to Sergeant Johnston for interesting notes ; also to many 
other members of the Regiment for information, all of whom he takes 
this occasion to thank. 

To General Drum, Adjutant-G«neral United States Army, he is 
deeply indebted for facilities for studying the records of the war and 
examining the rolls of the Twelfth Regiment. 

His thanks are also due to all the gentlemen connected with the 
War Department with whom he came m contact, for polite attention 
and assistance. 



Having been refused further access to the records, or information 
in regard to the oflScers or men of the Regiment after the " Rebellion 
Records" were placed in the possession of Doctor Ainsworth, the writer 
apologizes to the members of the Regiment for many incomplete records 
of officers and men. 

With incomplete records, and no diary to go by, the writer has done 
his best. He hopes his companions in arms will excuse all defects. 
Having been selected by the Regimental Association to write a history 
of the Regiment, he feels more keenly than he otherwise might, these 
deficienciee. 



CHAPTER I. 

ORGANIZATION OF PENNSYLVANIA RESERVE VOLUNTEER 

CORPS. 

The war between the States— for uud against the Union— was 
formally opened by the attack of the South CaroUnians upon Fort 
Sumter in Charleston Harbor, S. C, April 12, 1861. 

This fort was garrisoned by United States regular artillery under 
command of Major Robert Anderson. The great majority of the people 
of the North and Northwest, and a small majority of the inhabitants 
of the Border States, believed, until this attack was made on Govern- 
ment ti-oops, that some compromise would be adopted which would 
settle the difficulties or differences which had arisen between the 
sections of the Union on account of Slavery, which then existed in the 
Border and Southern States. However, the fires which had been 
started in Nullification times, in South Carohna, on account of the 
tariff, which were extinguished by General Jackson, were renewed 
under new political leaders ; and. secession, on account of the agita- 
tion for the Umitation or extinction of slavery, was so pei-sistently 
advocated by extremists, especiaUy in South Carolina, that M-heu Mr. 
Lincoln was legally elected president, on a non-extension of slavery 
platform, and the greater number of the pohtical leaders of the 
Southern States advocated secession as the only means of saving that 
section of the Union from subjection to the Northern portion, tlie 
majority of the white people of the seceding (Southern or Cotton) 
States and nearly one-lialf of the inhabitants of the Border States wc->r^> 
ready to follow such leaders out of the Union. 

The Southern people had been for years grossly deceived by tlieir 
political leaders as to the character of their fellow citizens of the 
North, and of their feelings toward them. The Northern people had 
been represented as all being violent Abolitionists, ready to destroy 
the Union in order to extinguish slavery: and, at the same time, as a 
set of cowardly traders, who under no circumstances could be induo^d 



to fight, while on the other luuid, the jcople <>f the Northern .States 
helieved tlie Soutliern peo]ile would only hluster, make a great fiiss 
and tlien, linally, accept some (("inproiiiise which would prevent the 
extension of slavery, and gradually put iui ( nd to it. 

Prohably some such compromise could Jiave been etfwted had tlie 
extremists on both sides been willing to wait. 

However, the war was pobsibly inevitable to i)iiiiish our people for 
inaugurating African slavery in our country. 

An < verwhelming majority of the inhal)itants of the Middle and of the 
Northw(>stern States, and a majority of the people of the New England 
and of the Border States were profoundly attached to the Union. They 
were ready to preserve it at any cost. 

Such bt^ing the state of affairs, it only required the decided action of 
a small party or force to inaugurate the war which followed. The firing 
upon and subsequent surrender of Fort Sumter aroused the feelings of 
the Union-loving inhabitants of the North and Bord r States to fever 
heat, and literally millions of men dropped everything to save the Union. 
Never was there greater unanimity amongst a people than existed 
throughout the whole Nortli immediately after the fall of Fort Sumter. 

The first military as well as political blunder of the new Adminis- 
tration was the failure to take advantage of this enthusiasm, that is. if 
the Administration were honest in its ex2jressed desire to suppress the 
Rebellion as quickly as possible. So much has been written by the close 
friends of the Administration since the war, in regard to the freeing of 
the slaves, and so little in relation to the preservation of the Union, the 
latter always being spoken of as incidental or subordinate to the former, 
suspicion arises as to the honest desire of the Administration to have 
had the Rebellion suppressed suddenly, which, of course, would have 
left slavery still existing. 

Tlie war was inaugiu-ated on the part of the people of the North for 
the preservation of the Union. But the slavery question became so 
prominent in a political point of view, it is feared the greater question, 
the indissolubility of the Union, is regarded by many as still in abeyance. 

" On the 16th of Ajnil, 1861, General Patterson, commanding the 
Pennsylvania troops at Harper's Ferry, requested Governor Curtin to 
call out twenty-five additional regiments of infantry and one of cavalry, 
to serve for three months and to be mustered into the service of the United 
States. Immediately upon receipt of this request the summons to arms 
was telegraphed to every part of the State, and men were organized in 



a day and started for the State Capitol. TiL.> authorities at Washington, 
however, had in tlie meantime determined not to receive any addi- 
tional regiments to serve for three montlis. and hence the order of 
General Patterson was countermanded Aytvil 80, 1861. In response to 
this call companies were dail,\- arriving at Harrisburg from every direc- 
tion, and the State was literally swarming with troops wjiich the War 
Department would not receive. The Governor wa.",, therefore, the more 
earnest in recommending that the Legislature should provide for the 
innnediate organization of these companies in a manner that would 
render them available in case the public safety required their service 
and also to allay the clamor of the men who had been stopped in the 
middle of their march. * * *" The act authorizing the organization 
of the Reserve Corps became a law May 15, ISCl. As finally passed it 
contained the following provisions : " That the Commander-in-Chief, in 
conjunction with the officers composing the grand staff of th.e miliria of 
the Conimonwealth, are hereby authorized and required to organize a 
Military Corps, to be called the Reserve Volunteer Corps of the Common- 
wealth, to be composed of thirteen regiments of infantry, one regiment 
of cavalry, and one regiment of light artillery. The said regiments 
shall severally be composed of companies of like numbe--, and to be armed 
and equipped, clothed, disciplined, governed and officered as similar 
troops in the service of the United States, and shall be enlisted in the 
service of the State for a period not exceeding three years or for the 
war, unless sooner discharged, and shall be liable to be called into the 
service of this State at such time as the Commander-in-Chief may deem 
their services necessary for the purpose of suppressing insuiTection, or 
to repel invasions, and further to be liable to be mustered into the ser- 
vice of the United States at such times as requisition may be made by 
the President of the United States. That the Commander-in-Chief, in 
conjunction with the officers aforesaid, shall cause two or more camps of 
instruction, not exceeding eight, to be formed in different sections of the 
State, for the accommodation and instruction of said troops ; and the 
Governor shall appoint suitable officers or drill masters with the rank 
and pay of captains, whose duty it shall be to instruct said troops in the 
military art, conforming as near as may be to the plan of instruction, 
rules, regulations and discipline adopted for similar troops in the service 
of the United States. That the Commander-in-Chief shall cause the 
troops aforesaid to be drilled and instructed in such encampments for 
and during such periods of time as he may deem necessary to perfect 



ilieni iu inilitav}- art. That the sevtral companies and regiments com- 
l>osing said volunteer corps shall be entitled to elect, and the Governor 
sliall commission olficers similar in number and rank to those allowed 
like troops in the army of the United States. Provided, that the Gover- 
.nor i^hall have power to appoint and commission chaplains for f-aid corps 
and to designate their rank. That no troops sliall be kept in cajnp 
longer than three months at any one time, except the Governor shall, 
uixin the expiration of three months, deem the longer continuance of 
said troops necessary for the protection of the Commonwealth, or sliall 
have a requisition for troops from the President of the United States. 
That the Commander-in-Chief, in conjunction with the grand staff as 
aforesaid, are hereby authorized and empowered to make and adopt all 
needful rules and regulations for the speedy and efficient organisation 
of said Vohmteer Reserve Corj)s, and for arming and equipping the same 
with the most approved style of arms and equipments ; and the ofiicers 
and rank and file compofirg said volunteer corps shall be sworn or 
affirmed to support the Constitution of this State and the Constitution of 
the United States." 

At the lime of the passage of this act more men than were required 
CO fill these regiments had been offered to the Governor. General Mc- 
Call was appointed April 16, isfil, Majrr-General under this act. He 
graduated at the West Point Military Academy in 1833, had served with 
distinction in the Florida war and in the war with Mexico. He had 
resigned from the regular army on account of ill health in April, 1853. 
The Twelfth Regiment was organized in Camp Cuitin at Harrisburg, 
July 25, 1861.. It was formed from the following named companies: 
Wayno Guards of Philadelphia, Captain J. H. Taggart, A Company; the 
Factoryviile Infantry of Wyoming County, Captain D. N. Mathewson, 
B Company; the Troy Guards of Bradford Comity, Captain Richard 
Gustin, C Company; tlie Kepner Fencibles of Dauphin County, Captain 
Samuel B. Wilt, D Company; the Easton Guards of Northhampton 
County, Captain Peter Baldy, E Company; the West Newton Guards of 
Westmoreland County, Captain A. G. Oliver, F Company; Bailey's 
Invincibies of York County, Captain Samuel N. Bailey, G Company; 
the Indiana Coimty Infantry, Captain A. J. Bolar, H Company; the 
'McClure Rifles of Franklin County, Captain James S. Eyster, K Com- 
pany; the Huntingdon Guards, Captain James C. Baker of Huntingdon 
County, subsequently joined as I Company. These companies — the nine 
^st mentioned— elected as field offic-ers. Captain J. H. Taggart, Colonel; 



captain 8. N. Bailey, Lieuteiiaat-Colonel; and Captaiu TeWr Bakly.. 
Major. Ami Henrv B. Whisner became Captain of A Company; Cliarles 
\V. Divoii, Captaiu of G Company, aud John I. Horn, Captain of E 
Company: William H. Tiiorne was ai5;))int?d Sargeon and Isaac I. 
Clarke. Assistant Surgeon, and assigned to the Twelfth Regiment. 

• The (-(Viipani s composing the Twelfth Regiment, raised piimarily 
for the Ihree months' s.n-vice. but not accepted, rendezvoused at Camp 
Curtin. " •■ The men Averenmstered into the State service for three 

mouths * ■■•' , as a part of the Reserve Corps. They had no previous 
military ex])erience, except the ]McClure Rifles of Franklin County, whicli 
Imd been attached to the voluuteer militia. Before the regiment was 
organized valuable instruction was given by Captain Tarbutton, military 
instructor at Camp Curtin, appointed by the Governor." The Twelfth 
Regiment was retained after the other regiments of the Reserve Corps 
left Camp Curtin, and was ordered to Harrisburg to protect t'.ie State 
arsenal from a threatened attack by the three months' troops, disbanded 
there during the latter part of July. This delicate duty was pjrformed' 
in such a manner as to receive the approval of the Governor and with- 
out precipititlng a conflict. An account of this affair by a member of 
the regiment says: " The regiment came in from Camp Curtin by a 
back street: the three months' men heard of it, then there was a race to- 
see who would reach the arsenal first; the Twelfth beat and surrounded,, 
with l.;aded muskets, the areenal, after wliich only loud talk followed." 
The regiment was mustered into the United States service at Harris- 
burg, Pennsylvania, AvigTist 10. ISfil, by Captain Has'ings. United 
States Army. 

The same date the regiment, in pursuance of orders to pr^)ceeii to 
join General Banks at Harper's Ferry, started for Baltimore, Maryland, 
arrived at Baltimore August 11, when the order to proceed to Harper's 
Ferry was countermanded, aud the regiment was ordered t ) reix)rt to- 
General iMcCall at Tennallytown, near Washingtoa, D. C. Tlie regiment, 
in pursuance of this last ord^r, arrived at Washington the same day 
(August j1) and was quartered in the tlieatre opposite the City Hal!. 
The following afternoon (August 12) joincl the Reserve Corps at Ten- 
nallytown. 



CHAPTER !!. 

CAMP LIFE AT TEXNALLYT.)\VN AND CAM\' PIERPONT. 
At cu!!!]) noar Teuuallytowu (which is situated on tiu' Rockville 
vouil ;i".x)at four miles from Georgetown), (h-ills, parades, pirlcet and 
sueli like (Uities occupied the time. Details were made from the com- 
mand to build Fort Pennsylvania, afterwards called Fort Reno, in honor 
of General Reno, killed at South Mountain, September 14, 186'2. a fort 
which became well known at the time of Early's attack on Washing- 
ton in June, 1864. The formidable appearance of this large fort, which 
was situated ou a cominanding eminence, dominating the country for 
miles in its front, had inuch to do with Early's failure to assault this 
fortified position. The w-iter (who had the honor to command the 
defences of Washington north of the Potomac at this time) has no 
doubt that General Early's command could easily have carried these 
fortifications had it attacked before the arrival of the Sixth Corps, ou 
account of the lack of defenders, the Union line bi^ng held by a small 
force of liundred-day men, veteran reserves and convalescents, which 
force was posted on the picket line al)out a mile in front of the fort, 
there not being sufficient numbers to hold both the forts and picket line. 
A small detail to fire the hundred- pounder Parrott rifle, located in an 
angle of the fort, and some citizens, constituted the only garrison of this 
formidable looking fortification for nearly two days, whilst Early's vet- 
-erans maneuvered in front of it. 

Sutlers vere peimitted, but their diet of pies and things at camp at 
Tennallytowu was regulated by orders, as shown by a regimental order 
of August 23, 1861, that " Sale of lemonade, beer, cider, ale, pies, cake, 
watermelons, citrons, green corn or cucumbers, forbidden near 
camps, on account of increased sickness." August 20 the regiment was 
attached to the Third Brigade, Pennsylvania Reserve Corps; the regi- 
ments composing the brigade were the Sixth. Nintli, Tenth and Twelfth. 
'Colonel ^.^(■C'almont, of the Tenth, conuiianded tlu' brigade. General J. 
F. Reynolds commanded the First Brigade and General Meade the Sec- 
ond. The Twelfth Regiment continued in this brigade its entire service. 



The following' items of intei-est are taken from the regiment.il 'rder 
book. Ausrust 24, recruiting officers sent to Pennsylvania: August 37, 
inventory of the effects of J. W. Campbell. H company. This appears 
to have been the first death in the regiment. September 3. Lieuten.ints 
Fletcher and Miller resigned; September 7, officers t^) b-j instructed in 
picket duty by Colonel Simmons of the Fifth; FJeptember 6, General 
McClellan"s Sunday order received; September 9. order to parade 
to receive regimental colors: Septcmbsr 22. lists of officers to be made 
for examination by Military Board: September 24, volunteers asked for 
regular artillery and cavalry; September 28, command ordered to be 
held in readiness to move (first, but not last order of this kind): October 
4. corps of pioneers for each regiment formed; two men to a company, 
twelve axes, two picks and four spades. 

" The men, hearing of skirmishes and other exciting times on the 
Virginia side of the Potomac, all welcomed the order to cross to old 
Virginny, 'to invade the sacred soil:""' crossed October 10. "Their 
ardor was somewhat abated upon their arrival at their camp at Lang- 
ley, as it was late at night, and they were obliged to lie out without 
shelter in cold and disagreeable weather." 

llvre the Reserve division, now fully organized, \\ ent into winter 
quarters, occupying the right of the line. The new camp near Langley 
was called Camp Pierpont. named for the Union Governor of Virginia. 
The division held a long picket line covering its front. It also had to 
keep the connection with the Potomac on the northwest. This involved 
a great deal of picket duty. As the enemy held a large force in the 
vicinity of Leesburg, threatening the right of the army and to cross 
into Maryland, the division held a very responsible position, and one 
involving ]iot only arduous but careful picket duty and numerous 
reconnaissances. 

Colonel Bayard (afterwards the distinguished cavalrj' general) com- 
manded the division cavalry. First Pennsylvania Cavalry. November 
19 General Ord was assigned to command of the Third Brigade. 
November 20. order for the grand review of McClellen's army by the 
President. A number of officers resigned about this time. Sypher, in 
his history of the Reserves, says: " It is noteworthy, that while the 
command*: rs of o' her divisions had frequently the mortLfication to report 
the loss in capture by the enemy of wagons, artillery, horsf s or men, 
the general commanding the Pennsylvania Reserve Corps was in every 
expedition successful, and on no occasion reported a reverse in Irscom- 



mand ftr an accident to hiK trfK)ps." Tliis was inoht probiildy due to tlie 
fact that the division, eacli of its brigades, and the cr.vah-y att:ichcd. were 
all connnanded by regular army officers who had proved themselver. 
efhcient before they were assigned to command in the division, all of 
wJiom became greatly distinguished afterward. The Army of the 
Potomac produced no 1 etter generals than McCall's brigade and cavalry 
<;ommanders. Sypher says: "October 18 General McC'a!l was 
directed to move liis command on the following d.iv to Dranesville, to 
reconnoitre, map the roads, etc. He was inforined that the enemy had 
left Leesburg. that there need be no fear of attack from that direction, 
but he was cautioned to look out for his left. Early Saturday (October 
19) the troops moved out with two days' cooked rations. At G P. M. the 
head of the column halted one and a half miles bej^ond Dranesville, in 
the direction of Leesburg. Bayard's cavalry leading, then Reynold's, 
then Meade's, then Third Brigade, McCalmont commanding, in rear. 
McCall asked to remain till Monday, which was granted. The division 
Stat ted back at 10 a. m., Monday. As General McCall was dismounting 
at ( "amp Pierpont at 1 p. m. . he i-eceived orders to remain at Dranesville 
until further orders. • Two brigades had arrived in t'amp Pierront. 
He ttlegraphed : " What shall I do?" He wjis told that he '• .should let 
his command rest and be prepared to move at a moment's notice if 
requinn]." The men were kept under arms till the next day at 4 P. M. 
Colonel Baker was attacked at Eairs Eluff at 4 F. M.. October 21. three 
hours after McCall arrived r.t Camp Pierpont. Drills and picket duty 
filled up the time until the battle of Dranesville. 



CHAPTER nj. 

BATTLE OF DRANESVILLE. DECEMBER 2(1. 1S(51. 

On l.lu> lOth <!f Dec-ember. 18G1. une of the scouts of the First rtion- 

sylvcuiia, Caviih y returned to camp and reported that the enemy vould 

he at Dranesville the next day with a strong foraging party urA a 

wagon train. Whereupon General McCall sent the following order to 

General Ord : 

" Headquarters McCalls Divisio:;. | 

Camp PiERPONT. Va., ,• 

December 19, 18G1. \ 

General— You will please move in connnand of your Brigade at 6 
A. M. to-morrow on the Leesburg Pike, in the direction of DrauesviUe, 
tlie First Rifles. Pennsylvania Reserves, Lieutenant-Colonel Kjme 
has been ordered to form right in front on the pike near ComnKKiore 
Jones" house and aw^ait your arrival, when the commanding officer wBJ 
report to you for further orders. Captain Easton"s battery has beao 
directed to form on the left of the Rifles. The captain will report to 
you for orders. Two squadrons of cavalry will also be placed under 
your connnand. The senior officer will report to you this evening tor 
orders. Sherman, the guide, will likewise report to you for duty. 

The object of this expedition is tw-o-fold. In the first place, to drive 
back the enemy's pickets, which have recently advanced within four^ir 
five miles of our lines, leaving a force of about seventy cavalry at Hen- 
derson's, and carried off two good Union men and threatened othei-s ; 
and secondly, to procure a supply of forage. . It has to-day been reported 
to me that there is a force of about one hundred cavalry lying between 
Dranesville and the river. This force might be captured or routed by 
sending a regiment of infantry up the pike beyond their position, to 
strike their rear by a ^ank movement to the right, while your dispos-^ 
able eavalry, after picketing the cross roads near Dickey's might move 
ueai- the river and attacli them in front or on the left. Should you not 
arrive at Dickey's in time to )nake tliis movement and leave the ground 



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ou your ivtiiru befurt' uighttall it must not he undertaken, a*; I do not 
wi>h any part of your command to remain out over nij^dit. The forage 
will be procured at Ciunnell's or at some otlier rank Secessionist's in the 
neigJiboihood of Dickey's. Direct your quartermaster to confine the 
selection of forage to corn and hay. Captain Hall will have charge of 
the wag(.n train. The regiment intended to move forward from 
Dickey's (if you think j)roper, .Jackson's,) might ride in the wagons as 
far as Dickey's, and then be fresh for the forward movement." 

The troops composing General Ord's command for this expedition 
consisted of liis own brigade, Sixth Reserves, Lieutenant-Colonel AV. M. 
Penrose; Nintli, Colonel C. F. Jackson; Tenth, Colonel J. S. .AlcCa!- 
mont, and Twelfth, Colonel J. H. Taggart; also the First Rifles (Buck- 
tails), Lieutenant-Colonel Kane ; Easton's battery, two twelve pounders 
(heavy), and two twenty-four pounder Howitzers, Captain H. Easton 
commanding; and two squadrons of the First Pemisylvania Cavalry, 
Lieutenant-Colonel J. Higgins commanding. (The Twelfth Regiment 
was composed of nine companies. K Company, a rifle company 
specially armed.) At 6 a. m. of the 20th this command began its march,' 
the cavalry scouting in front, the Bucktails leading the infantry. Skir- 
mishers were thrown out from the infantry regiments to act as flankers, 
the march being conducted strictly according to regulations for the move- 
ment of an armed reconnaissance in the enemy's country. The Ninth 
in wagons followed the Bucktails. then the Tenth, Sixth and Twelfth the 
latter in the rear. It was a fine frosty morning, just the weather to 
make the men march well, and to prefer marching and fighting to 
loitering around camp. General Reynolds, with the First Bri-ade 
was directed to move to Difficult Creek, to be ready to support General 
Ord m the event of his meeting a force stronger than his own There 
was a false alarm at Difficult Creek. General Ord's command halted 
there, lunched and then moved on; tlie head of the command reached 
Dranesville about 11 a. w. 

General Ord reported the action as follows : 

'• Camp Pierpont, Va., December 31, '61. 
Sm-I have to report tliat, in obedience to the enclosed order I at 
6 A M yesterday, started towards Dickey's and Hendersons, about three 
miles this side of Dranesville. on the Leesburg Pike, with mv brigade, the 
First Rifles, Lieutenant-Colonel Kane; Easton's battery and two 
sqtiadrons of cavalry. I likewise heard that it was probable there waa 



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a respectable picket of cavuli y at Diiu.ebvillc, and that the picket sup- 
posed by you to be near the river behind Dickey's had left. I then 
^letermined to send three companits of the Tenth and Twentj' cav- 
alry with the foraging party to Gunnell's, between the pike and the 
river, and with the remainder of the force to proceed to Dranesville, 
satisfied that, though I might be exceeding the letter of iny instruc- 
tions, should I find the enemy and pick up a few you would not object. 
This I did, though Colonel McCalmont, hearing that there was a large 
force on our left, remained with his part of the regiment, and that 
detained the two regiments behind him. I had sent for them, but 
was obliged to enter Dranesville with my artillery and cavalry and a 
small advance guard only on the road, the First Rifles and Colonel 
Jackson's regirieut flanking this column in the woods on the right and 
left. The cavalry picket in town fled and scattered and remained in small 
squads watching. 

Wliile waiting in Dranesville for the regiments in rear to come up, 
I posted my artillery and cavalry and Jackson's regiment of infantry 
and a couple of companies of the First Rifles so as to cover the ap- 
proaches, and sent for Kane's regiment to occupy the road in our then 
rear, my front being toward Centreville. This I did because from the 
occasional appearances of a few mounted men on a slope behind some 
woods in a hollow to my left and front, and a broad mass of smoke in 
that neighborhood. I felt pretty sure there was a force there preparing 
some mischief. 

As soon as Colonel McCalmont came up with his regiment {the 
Tenth), followed by Lieut. -Colonel Penrose (the Sixth) and Colonel Taggart 
with the Twelfth, and while preparing to resist any attack and to cover 
my foraging party, I learned that the enemy in force had approached 
on the south side of tlie Leesburg Pike, with field pieces and infantry. 
and had driven in my pickets, wounding two men. Thinking thev 
would attack on both sides of the turnpike, as I returned eastward, I 
ordered (to meet this expected attack) Colonel McCalmont's regiment 
on the 1( f 1; or river side of the rond in the woods, left in front, and if 
the enemy showed hinist If en tha!; side to bring his regiment forward 
into line. 

Colonel Jackson's regiment (of wliicli and its gallant coloned I can- 
not speak in too high terms) i ordered t > flank the road in the same way 
on the right of the road i:i the woods, and do thesani^f the enemy 
showed on that sid^. Between these flanking regiments I ordereil the 



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Kane Rifics to meet the enemy behind us in the road— the cavalry to 
follow— and tlie artillery I took with me to post them and answer the 
enemy's artillery, which had opened fire on onr then right (the south), 
directing t!ie rear guard to cover the column of the Sixth and Twelfth 
regiments of infantry in the road from cavalry. 

The artillery went at a rim past the station I selected for them, 
capsizing one of their pieces. I brought them back, told the captain where 
to post his guns, and then went to remove the cavalry then exposed in 
the road swept by the enemy, whose attack was from a thickly wooded 
hill on our right flank (the south). Their force, I saw, was a very bold 
one, very well po-ted, and the artillery was only about 500 yards off. 
with a large force of infantry on both flanks and in front, covered and 
surrounded by the woods and thickets. Moving eat-t v>ith the cavalry, 
which was of no use here, I came to a place in tlie road covered towards 
the enemy by a high bluff and dense thicket, which thicket I intended 
to occipy with infantry. Here I left the cavalry surrounded by dense 
forests, wherein they could neither fight nor be hurt. The accompany- 
ing sketch will show the ground (not found). As I had at first thought 
the enemy would attack on both sides of the road (road to Alexandria), 
and moved mj- infantry to meet such an attack, an J as their attack was 
confined to the right, it became necessary for me to change my front, as 
neither McCalmont nor Jackson had liad time to come iato lino imder 
first orders, when I discovered this, and were moving by the fla:;k, and, 
as before I iilac?d the artillery and cavalry I had seen the Rifles closely 
engaging the enemy by a flank movement, covering themselves l»y some 
bushes and fences, my right, in meeting the attack, thus b?ca:ne the 
village of Dranesville, my left the gorge and woods occupied by my 
cavalry on the L^esburg Pike. 

Afte)" :-o 'uriug the cavalry, I found, by carefully observing tlie 
enemy's fire and battery, that their guns were in a road which could be 
enfiladed. I ordered Captain Easton to right the capsized gun and bring 
it to the spot from which this road could be raked, removed two other 
guns to tliis spot, gave the gimaers tho distance and eleTation, observed 
the result, and finding after a round or two that the enemy's fire 
Klackenod and the gunners were raking the road beautifully without 
being discomposed by the enemy's fire. I told them ■• to keep at that." 
and determined to push tiie infantry forward. 

I found them, except the Kane Rifles. th(- Nintli (Jackson's) and the 
Tenth (McCalmont's) rfgiments which weic ;ik above stated, in the 



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ditches, under fences, and covering theu.selves a. best they could I 
started them forward, Kane, at the head of hi. regiment, leadmg. Hi. 
and Jackson's regiments r. quired no urging. McCahnont's regiment 
was kept in excellent order by .t. colonel-than whom a better officer us 
not foundinmy brigade-and acted as a reserve. I put them m the 
woods, pushed and exlunted them up the hill, having directed the 
battery to cease firing, and proceeded witli my infantry with the 

bayonet. , 

About this time, between 3 and 4 o'clock (the action began at .....0), 

General McCall, I was informed, arrived on the field. * * * 

He was so kind as to direct me to continue the pursuit in the same 
order and to continue my disposition, which I did. The enemy were 
pursued fully half a mile further, but they had left the neighborhood m 
..reat haste, leaving their arms, a portion of their dead and wounded, 
clothing, ten horses, and a quantity of artillery equipments, with two 
cassions and a limber scattered along the road towards Centrevdle and 
in the woods on both sides. * * 

The enemy left twenty-one of their most desperately wounded on 
the field, who were taken up, carried to houses and their wounds dressed 
by our surgeons, but they will nearly all die. Their dead left on the 
field is variou^ly es'imated from fifty to seventy-five. 

Our artiUery did terrible havoc, exploding one ammunition 
wagon, and some of their men whom we brought in say the slaughter 

was terrible. * * * 

The prisoners further stated that Colonel Taylor was doubtles.s 

killed. . . ^^ .„ 

-::• * * After the affair we built our bivouac fires in DranesvUle. 
Thu« sir we, on returning to camp, had marched twenty-four miles, 
beatJn the enemy, loaded our wagons with forage, bringing in (twelve 
miles) our killed, seven, and wounded, sixty, among whom are four 
captains. Sjme of our wounded had to be brought the whole distance 
on stretchers, while I am informed the Pennsylvania ambulances for 
this division are lyingempty in Washington. It is impossible to remem- 
ber all who were conspicuous, especially as the fighting occurred m 
thickets and was scattered over much ground. Captain Easton was 
very efficient and his battery well served. The wounded officers, Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel Kane and Captain Niles, of the Kane Rifles; Captam 
Bradbury of the Sixth, and Captains Dick and Gulway of the Ninth 
P. R. V. C. were conspicuous, leading their men when wounded. * * * 



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The prisouors report that the brigadt- engaged against us was 
K.mposed of the Kentucky Rifles, an Alabama, a South Carolina and 
a Virginia regiment, with a six-gun battfry. all under the command 
(if General Stuart. 

I must not forget the i)rompt mimner in whicli General Reynolds 
came up from Diflicult Creek, some four mil(>s oif. as so n as he heard 
the cannonading. He arrived too late, it is tuie. to take part in tlie 
affair, but the certainty that he would come witli his brigade insured a 
Tictory and stimulated our men to earn it." 

When the enemy was discovei'ed to be in force on the Centreville 
Road, General Ord's command was arranged about as follows: The 
Ninth Rygiment on the south side of the Alexandria and Leesburg Pike, 
four companies and a platoon of the Tenth <jn the left (north) side of 
that Pike, both regiments a little east of Dranesville, and both moving 
eastward by the flank; a part of the Rifle Regiment on the pike near the 
village, the balance on picket across the Centreville Road, and extending 
to the Alexandria and Leesburg Pike : the Sixth on the Pike at the 
eastern end of the village ; the Twelfth on the Pike, just east of the 
Sixth; the cavalry and artillery in the village; three companies and a 
platoon of the Tentli after forage between the river and Dranesville 
Pike. It was soon after this learned by the Un on commander that 
none of the e emy was north of the Alexandria and Leesburg Pike, but 
that he was advancing on both sides of the Centreville Road, supporting 
his artillei-y on that road. 

General Stuart, commanding the Confederate force, reported under 
date of December 23, 1861, as follows : 

" Tiiat on the 30th inst. I was placed in command of four regiments 
of infanty, irO cavalry, and a battery of four pieces of artillery, viz.: 
Eleventh Virginia Volunteers, Colonel S. Garland, Jr.; Sixth South 
Carolina Volunteers, Lieutenant-Colonel Secrest ; Tenth Alabama Vol- 
unteers, Colonel J. H. Forney ; and First Kentucky Volunteers, Colonel 
Thomas H. Taylor ; making an aggregate force of 1,600 infantry ; 
Sumter Flying Artillery, four pieces. Captain A. S. Cutts ; One Hun- 
dreth (?) North Carolina Cavalry, Major Gordon ; and Fifty Second (?) 
Virginia Cavalry, Captain Pitzner, for the purpose of covering an 
expedition of aU the wagons of our army that coiUd be spared (after hay) 
to the left of Dranesville. I proceeded at once by the nearest route at 
daylight towards Dranesville. * * * Accompanying sketch (not 
found). Eaiowing tlie situation of the enemy's advance posts, I sent the 



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cavalry forward far in advance of the infantry, to take possession of the 
two turnpikes to the right of Dranesville, leading directly to the enemy's 
advanced posts, so as to prevent any coinmunicition of our movements 
reaching them, and with th3 main body 1 followed on to take a position 
with two regiments and a section of artillery on each turnpike, also to 
the right of Draaesville, and close euougli to their intersection to form 
a continuous line. Such a position I knew I could hold against almost 
any odds, but as my cavalry came m sight of the tm-npike Captain Pitz- 
ner discovered the enemy at the point (A) on the ridge anil sent me 
word immediatelj^ I galloped forward at ou-e. and. reconnoitering for 
myself, found that a portion of the enemy was ia possession of the ridge, 
and I could hear distinctly artillery carriages passing up the Georgetown 
Turnpike in considerable numbers, and presently saw the cannoneers 
mounted on limber boxes passing up towards Dranesville, about 200 
yards from the intersection (A). I knew, too, that the enemy's infantry 
were in advance, and I at once suspected that he was either marcliing 
upon Leesburg or had received intelligence through a spy of our 
intended forage expedition and was marching upon it. In either case 
our wagons would have fallen an easy prey to him, and I saw at once 
that my only way to save them was to make a vigorous attack upon his 
rear and left flank and to compel him to desist from his purpose. 

I sent back for the infantry to hurry forward and sent Captain 
Pitzner with his detachment of cavalry to gain the road towards Lees- 
burg, give notice to our wagons to relurn at once to camp, and keep 
between them and the enemy, threatening his front and flank ; and I 
will state here, parenthetically, that tliis dutv was performed by Captain 
Pitzner and his gallant little detachment in ihe most creditable manner, 
all om- wagons reaching camp safely." (But without any forage !) 

"In the meantime the enemy's skirmishers took possession of the 
dense pine in our front, and as our infantry was met by my messenger 
three-fourths of a mile back, it was some time coming up. Colonel 
Garland's regiment, leading, was directed to deploy two companies on 
each side of the road to clear the ground of the enemy's skirmishers. 
One of these companies, having mistaken its direction, went too far to 
the right, and Colonel Garland had to replace it with another. The 
pines were cleared at double quick, and the battery was ordered in 
position at B, and fired very effectively during the whole engagement 
to the front. The infantry were placed in position as follows : Gar- 
land's regiment on the right of the road, a little in advance of the 



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artillery \ Secrest (S. C.) on the left of the road ; Forney's regiment, 
airiving late, replaced Garland's, which moved by the flank to the right, 
and the First Kentucky, Colonel Taylor, at first intended as a reserve, 
was ordered to take position on the left of the Sixth South Carolina 
Begiment. As our infantry was well secured from the enemy's view, 
ttieir artillery fire, which opened about fifteen minutes after ours began, 
led little effect upon the infantry, but played with telling effect along 
liieroad,, as from its position (C) and the straightness of the road in our 
TK-AV, it raked tlie latter with shell and round shot completely. Their 
iTUSBons and limbers were behind in a brick hotise, and completely 
protected from our shot, while our cassions and limbers were necessarily 
<;iwwded and exposed. There was no outlet to right or left, for a mile 
back, by which the artillery could change its position. When our 
f«Kces took their position tlie fire of the artillery caused great commo- 
tiDQ io the enemy's lines, and ti part evidently took to their heels. The 
rigiit wing was ordered forward, and the Tenth Alabama rushed with a 
sluMit into a shower of bullets, under the gallant lead of their Colonel 
^omey) and Lieutenant-Colonel Mai-tin, the latter falling in the 
cliarge, A part of this regiment crossed the road and took position 
alOTig a fence, from which the enemy felt the trueness of their aim at 
afciort range. The Colonel was here severely wounded and had to retire, 
ia his absence the command fell upon Major Woodward. The Eleventh 
Tirginia, holding position on the right of the Tenth Alabama, was 
fflot so much exposed to the fire of the enemy, aul consequently 
srjfjffered less. The Sixth South Carolina gradually gained ground 
aSso to the front, and being, together with the Tenth Alabama, exposed 
&> the fire of the enemy's sharpshooters from a two stcrj' brick house 
stuffered most. My orders to Colonel Taylor, First Kentucky, were 
given through Colonel Forney, and I soon knew by the commotion on 
my left that it was in place. The thicket where the Sixth South Caro- 
jiina and First Kentucky operated was so dense that it was impossible to 
see either (their) exact position or their progress in the fight, and I 
j»?gret to say that the First Kentucky and the Sixth South Carolina mis- 
took each other for the enemy, and a few casualties occurred in conse- 
iHaence ; but with that exception the whole force acted with admirable 
soiison,. and advanced upon the enemj- with the steadiness of veterans, 
■driving him several times from his position with heavy loss. When the 
•action had lasted about two hours I found that the enemy, being already 
m. force larger than my own. was recovering from his disorder and re~ 



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ceiving heavy re-enforcements. I could not, with my small numbers, 
being beyond reach of re-enforcements, force his position without fearful 
sacrifice, and seeing tliat his artillery, superior to ours in number and 
position only, was pouring a very destructive fire into Cutts' battery, I 
decided to withdraw the latter at once, preparatory to retiring from the 
field, judging, too, that I had given our wagons ample time to get 
out of reach of the enemy. 

•The battery suffered greatly. Its position was necessarily such that it 
could fire only to the front, and the caissons and hmbers had no cover 
whatever from such a fire. Three or four cannoneers had been shot at 
their posts and several wounded, and every shot of the enemy was deal- 
ing destruction on either man, limber or horse. The conduct of the brave, 
true and heroic Cutts attracted my admiration frequently during the 
action, now acting No. 1 and now as gunner, and still directing and 
disposing the whole with perfect self-command and a devotion to his 
duty that was, I believe, scarcely ever equalled. He executed my orders 
to withdraw his battery under a ricochet fire of great accuracy. One 
piece I found it necessary to detail some infantry (Eleventh Virginia) to 
assist in conducting to the rear, which was done by them under great 
personal exposure. Having secured the artillery, I sent orders to the four 
regimental commanders to disengage themselves from the enemy and 
retire slowly and in perfect order to the railroad, where a stand would be 
made. This delicate duty was performed admirably, and our troops 
marched back leisurely, bringing with them all the woimded that could 
be found. * * * Qne regiment reached the road in rear of point 
where it left its knapsacks. * * * 

As to the strength of the enemy, if concun-ent statements of the 
citizens residing on his route of march can be credited, he had fifteen 
regiments of infantry, several batteries and seven companies of 
cavalry." (The citizens probably referred to McCalls entire division.) 
"Colonel Taylor became separated from his regiment, but rejoined his 
conamand. * * » Our loss is as follows : 

KILLED. WOUNDED. MISSING. 

Eleventh Alabama 6 15 — 

Sixth Soutli Carolina 18 45 — 

Tenth Alabama 15 45 6 

First Kentucky 1 23 3 

Cutts* Battery 3 15 — 

Total, 194." 



Discovering the enemy in force on his right flank, as his command 
was then disposed, General Ord changed front to the right. The Ninth 
Regiment was faced to the soutb and directed to advance west of and 
parallel to the Centreville Road. The First Rifles were pushed forward 
at double quick to the brick house on left of Centreville Road ; the Sixth. 
Regiment was ordered to report to Lieutenant-Colonel Kane and supi)ort 
his regiment on its right ; the Twelfth to advance as a reserve to this 
whole force ; the Tenth to support the battery and to send a skirmish 
line out to the left of the battery to watch the left flank. 

Soon General Ord perceived the confusion of the enemy around his 
battery, and he at once assumed the offensive by advancing his com- 
mand as now arranged. He assumed command of this advance in 
person. The Ninth Reserves met the First Kentucky in the thick woods, 
and not recognizing it as an enemy, received its first volley before firing; 
but notwithstanding so severe a test of its discipline, this gallant regi- 
ment held its ground and opened a vigorous return fire. The Sixth 
Regiment, supporting the Rifles, crossed the Centreville Road and met 
the enemy's centre and right ; the Twelfth was advanced first against 
the enemy's left, then afterwards sent around the enemy's flan'i, in hope 
of taking his battery. The Tenth supported Easton's battery in its new 
position. The battery having its left flank exposed in this position, 
Captain McConnell of B Company of Tenth was thrown out on the 
extreme left with the platoon of his company which was present (the 
other platoon having gone for forage). He deployed his men as skir- 
mishers and advanced to some ditches, where he was joined voluntarily 
by the pioneers of his regiment. Captain McConnell's small force suc- 
ceeded in checking the enemy's advance in this direction, being assisted 
by an occassional shell thrown from Easton's battery, in his (McCon- 
nell's) front. 

After a short and shai^p contest the enemy was driven from his 
position and followed half a mile. The Confederate loss shows that both 
his infantry and artillery gallantly contested the ground, while the 
Union success showed that he was no less courageous. 

General Ord's artillery, although of the same number of guns as the 
enemy's, was much the superior, and conduced greatly to the Union 
success. The forces of infantry were as near equal in nimabers as ever 
happens in war. It was a gallant and honestly won victory for General 
Ord; Easton's battery, Kane's Rifles and the Third Brigade. 

Casualties in General Ord's command were : 



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KILLED. AVOUNDED. WOUNDED. 

Enlisted Men. Officers. Enlisted Men. 

Artillery None None 1 

First Rifles 3 2 26 

Sixth Regiment 8 1 12 

Ninth Regiment.... 2 2 18 

Twelfth Regiment. — — 1 

Aggregate, 70. 

Lieutenant-Colonel Kane and Captain Nilesof Rifles, Captain Brad- 
bury of Sixth, and Captains Dick and Galway of Ninth, wounded. 
Colonel Tagerart's report stated that he was the only field officer present, 
only three captains present; 575 officers and men present. Lieutenant 
Reid acted as adjuiant, and that " Private "William R. Fox of Com- 
pany K was wounded in the right thigh during the first part of our 
advance in the woods. He made a narrow escape. A porte-monnaie in his 
pocket was bored through, and a $2.50 gold piece in it was bent nearly 
double." 

Instead of regarding its safety, the cavalry ought to have been 
thrown upon the enemy's flank when the infantry assumed the offen- 
sive. General Ord had a chance to cause a genuine route and a great 
capture, but at that time in the war and for a year afterwards the only 
thought about cavalry was, "how to take care of it." The defeated 
Confederate general became one of the most noted generals of cavalry 
of the war, but this lesson seems never to have been forgotten by his 
superiors, and he seldom had an infantry command. The following 
orders were published to the command: 

" Headquarters, A. P., } 

Washington, D. C, December 28, 1861. j" 

G. O. No. 63. The Commanding General expresses his thanks to 
Brigadier-General Ord and the brave troops of his brigade, who so 
gallantly repulsed an attack of an equal force of the enemy on the 20th 
inst. The General takes pleasure in observing the readiness of the 
remaining troops of McCall's division and the able dispositions of their 
commander to repel the enemy in case of the advance of re-enforcements. 

The General would also acknowledge the distinguished services of 
Colonel McCalmont, Tenth iRfantry, Pennsylvania R. C. ; Colonel 
Jackson, Ninth Infantry, P. R. V. C; Lieutenant-Colone? Kane, Rifle 
Regiment, P. R. V. C; and Captain Easton of Easton's Battery, which 
contributed in a large degree to the success of the day. 

By command of Major-General McCleUan, 

S. Williams, A. A. G. 



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War Department, December 28, 1861. 
Brigadier-Cjeneral G. A. McCall, Commanding Division, Camp 
Pierpout, Virgini;i. 

General — 1 have read your report of the battle of Dranesville, and 
although no reply is necessary on my part, yet as a citizen of the same 
conmion wealth as yourself and the troops engaged in that brilliant 
affair, I cannot refrain from expressing to you my admiration of the 
gallant conduct displayed, by both officers and nien, in this their first 
contest with the enemy. Nearly all your command upon that occasion 
are either my personal friends or sons of those with whom for long 
years I have been more or less intimately associated. I feel that I have 
just cause to be proud that, animated by no other motive than patriot- 
ism, they are among the first to revive the glory shed upon our country 
by the men of the Revolution and soldiers of the war of 1813. It is one 
•of the bright spots that give assurance of success of coming events ; and 
its effect must be to inspire confidence in the belief that hereafter, as 
heretofore, the cause of our country will triumph. I am especially 
gratified that a Pennsylvania artillery corps, commanded by officers 
who have necessarily had but limited systematic instruction, have won 
not only the commendation of their friends, but an unwUling compli- 
ment from tlie enemy, for the wonderful rapidity and accuracy of their 
fire. I wish I could designate all the men who, nobly discharging their 
duty to the country, have added to the glory of our great common- 
wealth. 

Other portions of the army will be stimulated by their brave deeds, 
and men will be proud to say that at Dranesville they served under 
JMcCall and Ord. 

I am, General, very respectfully, your obedient servant, 

Simon Cameron, 

Secretary of War." 

' The gallantry of our troops in the late affair at Dranesville de- 
Tnands a public acknowledgment. Their courage, conduct and high 
•discipUne are honorable to the Corps and to the Commonwealth, by 
■whose forecast it was raised and formed, in anticipation of the exig- 
encies of the country, and whose sons fill its ranks. 

General McCall and Brigadier-General Ord, and the officer and men 
who were engaged under their commands, may be assured that Penn- 
sylvania is not insensible to their martial virtue, and from them and 



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their fellows confidently looks for as many further illustrations of it aa 
there shall be opijortunity afforded them. 

By order of A. G. Curtin, Governor of Pennsylvania^ 
A. L. Russell, Aid-de-camp." 

Syphur says; "General McCall published a congratulatory order,, 
and caused to be read to his division the letter from Secretary Cameron 
and the order from Governor Curtin. The colors of the regiments that 
veere engaged in the battle were taken to Washington, and on each flag, 
' Dranesville, December 20, 1861,' was printed in golden letters." 

FROM DRANESVILLE TO PENINSULAR CAMPAIGN. 

After the battle of Dranesville, the camp was visited by many dis- 
tinguished persons, and the Reserves were the heroes of the Winter. 
Many congratulatory orders were issued. That of General Ord sug- 
gested the use of distinctive badges, the origin of corps badges. No 
order was given to build Winter quarters, but temporary huts, three 
to four logs high, with tents over them, were erected. Sheet iron stoves 
furnished heat. Drills were required whenever the weather permitted > 
and there was much picket duty. These duties filled in the time until 
Spring. December 26, 1861, First Lieutenant McMurtrie, who was pro- 
moted from the First Rifles, joined and was appointed adjutant. 
December 28 there was a review for Governor Curtin, and December 30 
the flags were sent away to have Dranesville inscribed upon them. 

The regimental band (which could play only a few pieces) was dis- 
charged, for the reason that the men had not been enhsted as private 
soldiers. It rained almost every day. Some men volunteered to serve 
with Stewart's regular battery (to which the writer was attached). 
Bad weather and hard work discouraged these volunteers and tliey al! 
retvu-ned to their companies. Some men volunteered for gunboat 
service. The crew of the Gunboat Carondelet was composed of these 
men. This vessel gained a national reputation. January 10, 1862, there 
was a review to receive the flags with Dranesville inscribed on them. 
March 10, 1862, the division left Camp Pierpont. Woodward says : 

"We continued up the pike, crossing Difiicult Creek, to Spring 
Vale, within three miles of Dranesville. When turning to the left 
and following a bridle path through the woods and over the hill we 
reached about dark the neighborhood of Hunter's Mills, near which, on 
the Loudon and Hampshire Raihoad, we bivouaced, the night being very 
cold and rainy. Here we remained until the next afternoon when we 



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marched about two miles to a high elevation near the ruins of Hawk- 
liurst Mills, where we encamped, about seventeen miles from Camp 
Pierpont, two miles from Fairfax Court House, and eight from Bull Run 
battle ground. * * * Here we received our shelter tents. The men 
•called tJiem 'dog houses.' On the evening of the 14th, during a light fall 
of riiin, we took up our p a rch through the woods, on every side bivouacs 
and burning bough huts and arbors, the glare of which lighted up our 
road for miles. * * » Reaching the Alexandria and Leesburg Pike, we 
turned to the right, and passing along it for two miles, about 11 o'clock 
filed into a dense open wood, where, in spite of the falling rain, our fires 
soon burned brightly, and we slept soundly. The next morning early, 
•during a heavy rain, we took up our line of march, moving across the 
country to the Dranesville Pike, and turning down it crossed DiflBcult 
Creek, passing within four miles of our old home at Pierpont, and enter- 
ing a wood moved back again towards the Alexandria and Leesburg Pike 
by a private road. The rain by this time was falling in torrents, flooding 
the swampy ground, making the marching most tiresome and fatiguing. 
Soon the ranks were broken, the men scattering, plunging through the 
mud, and toiling under their knapsacks, made doubly heavy by their 
blankets and overcoats becoming saturated with water. Soon they 
commenced dropping out, laid scattered through the woods for miles. 
Upon striking the turnpike again a long halt was called for the stragglers 
to catch up, and then moving on, we soon filed into a wood and stacked 
arms. This was about 3 o'clock, and although we had marched fifteen 
miles we were but three miles from the starting point, the detour to the 
left having been made on account of the enemy's having burnt the bridge 
over Difficult Creek. It rained all night. The command had no tents. 
General McCall said this was the only march the men ever complained 
•of. At 10 A. M. the next morning, we moved down the pike, passing 
Tails Church, Munson's HiU and a long line of fortifications erected at 
•different times by the Union and Confederate troops, and arriving 
within a mile of Alexandria, moved over the fields to the left, and en- 
camped near the Cemetery and Fairfax Seminary. On account of bad 
roads and a previous sleepless night, this was a hard march, but the men 
had spirit enough to guy a red-legged Zouave. Remained in camp here 
nearly a month. The war had changed Alexandria from a quiet, sleepy 
old Virginia town into a bustling business place. McClellan's army 
"was encamped aU about it, awaiting embarkation to the Peninsular. 
The soldiers and army employees swarmed in the streets, and although 



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the sale of liquor was prohibited yet large quantities were sold. One 
man had a barrel up the chimney, another a barrel on top of his house, 
from wliicU he drew liquor by a gas jet. Another drew it from a private 
house adjoining his store by his hydrant. The men of the Reserves were 
veiy well behaved. The weather during our encampment here was 
cold, rainy and unpleasant, rendering the ground mostly unfit for 
driUing, but every favorable opportunity was taken advantage of for 
that purpose. We received our full rations, and a ration of whisky was 
served out every rainy night. Tlie division was attached to McDowell's 
command. Early on the 9th of April struck shelter tents and strapped 
them on our knapsacks with three days' cooked rations in haversacks and 
moved off. * * * Rained and snowed. * * * Passing down be- 
tween Forts Ellsworth and Lyons, we marched about three miles on the 
Orange and Alexandria Raih'oad, when we halted t^ await transporta- 
tion. * * * Marched about six hours in the mud and then embarked 
(took cars) ; arrived at 9 p.m. about two miles l:»eyoud Bull Run Creek, 
in front of a large deserted encampment of rebel huts ; had a good 
night." 

The Twelfth Regiment left camp near Alexandria April 11th, 
marched to Manassas Junction, where it arrived next day at 5 p. m. ; 
remained there until April 18, when it marched to Catlett's Station, 
where it arrived the same day. Distance marched, fifty -five mUes. 
April 21st the regiment (Twelfth) was detailed for guarding the Orange 
and Alexandria Railroad from Bristoe to Catlett's Station. The Twelfth 
Regiment up to the 7th of May was guarding the Orange and Alexandria 
Railroad. On the 7th marched from Catlett's Station towards Falmouth, 
and arrived at camp near Falmouth on the 9th, when it joined the Third 
Brigade Pennsylvania Reserves, and remained with the brigade till the 
end of the month. 

On this march to Falmouth five men who were outside of the 
command were captured by guerrillas, and private William Fox, of 
Company B was wounded. Colonel Taggart sent back cavalry and 
infantry to capture these guerrillas. This command not succeeding 
in finding these guerrillas, Colonel Taggart went back the next day with 
two companies and found tlie house where the guerrillas had been har- 
bored, and finding Private Fox's gun there, he caused the house to be 
destroyed, to prevent a recuiTence of such harborage. His act appeared 
to have had a salutary effect. 

A portion of the Reserve Corps was sent to Fredericksburg. Bay- 



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ard's cavalry had a successful engagement with the enemy's cavalry on 
the Richmond side of Fredericksburg. 

The Twelfth Regiment remained in camp near Falmouth from May 
9th till it started for the Peninsular 



CHAPTER IV. 



PENINSULAR CAMPAIGN ^BEFORE ARRIVAL OF THE 

RESERVES). 

On tlie 13tli of March, 1862, Fortress Monroe, Virginia, was adopted 
as the base of operations for the Army of the Potomac in its advance on 
Richmond. " For the prompt and successful execution of the projected 
operation it was regarded by all as necessary that tlie whole of the four 
corps" (McDowell's, Sumner's, Heintzelman's and Keyes') "should be 
employed, with at least the addition of 10,000 men drawn from the 
forces in the vicinity of Fort Monroe." 

Fortress Monroe and vicinity, were under the command of General 
Wool, one of the old general officers of the regular army. The Army of 
the Potomac moved by transports the latter part of March and 1st of 
ApHl from Alexandria, McClellan reaching Fort Monroe, April 2d. At 
the solicitation of General Wool, and, no doubt, harrassed by McClellan's 
enemies in Washington, the President issued orders, April 3d, depriving 
McClellan of command of Fort Monroe, his base of operations, and for- 
bidding him to detach any men from General Wool's command. This 
was the first of a series of orders from Washington, which, in great 
part, caused the misfortunes of the Army of the Potomac on the Penin- 
sula. It was no doubt hoped by McClellan's enemies that he would 
now throw up the command of that army. He had shortly before, at 
their instigation, been relieved of the command-in-chief. 

The maps as made up by General Wool's engineers showed the War- 
wick river as flowing parallel to but not crossing the road from New- 
port News to Williamsburg, making Mulberry Island a real island. The 
Confederate general, Magruder, with about 10,000 men, defended York- 
town and vicinity. Geaeral Huger, at Norfolk, had about 15,000. The 
Union commanders supposed these forces opposed to them much larger. 
April 3d, the part of the Army of the Potomac which had arrived at 
Fort Monroe, started up the Peninsula. On account of the difficulty of 
moving animals by water the army land transport ition at this time was 
very insufficient. McClellan's plan, as he says, was "to move the two 



divisions of the Fourth Corps (Keyes'), by the Newport News and Wil- 
liamsburg Road, to take up a position between Yorktown and WiUiams- 
burg, while the two .livisious of the Third Corps (Ileintzelman's) moved 
direct from Fort Monroe on Yorktown, the reserves moving so as to 
support either corps as might prove necessary. I designed, should the 
works at Yorkiown and Williamsburg oiler a serious resistance, to land 
the First Corps (McDowell's), re-enforced, if necessary, on the left bank of 
the York river or on the Severn, to move it to Gloucester and West 
Point, in order to take in reverse whatever force the enemy might have 
on the Peninsula and compel him to abandon his positions." When 
the army reached Yorktown and Lee's Mills, it met serious resistance, 
and here, on the 5th of April, the next and fatal order from Washington 
was received, withdrawing McDowell's, the largest corps, from McClel- 
lan's command. The controversy which this order provoked, l.crv^ 
still unsettled, the results of the order only will be considered as we 
proceed. The first result was the stoppage of the advance of the force 
on the Peninsula. McClellan, naturally cautious, became over-cautious. 
The writer thought, at the time the army reached Yorktown, it could by 
a little hard fighting and by rapid movements have forced the enemy's 
position there. Since he has learned how small a force Magruder had at 
the time, he is confirmed in his opinion. He thinks McCleUan, Barnard, 
chief engineer, and the other generals whom McClellan consulted 
made a mistake in deciding that an apparently strong position, come 
upon unexpectedly, could be taken only by a siege. The writer went in 
person amongst the Union pickets to a position where he thought a line 
of battle could be formed which could carry the Yorktown entrench- 
ments. That is, when the Union army first arrived in front of them. 
The writer (who was on the artillery staff at the time) with others urged 
that an attempt be made to carry the enemy's works. He was disap- 
pointed at hearing talk of a tiege before anything was done to test the 
strength of the enemy's position. After several days' delay any assault 
would possibly have faded. Moreover, there was at the time the Union 
army arrived before Yorktown no Confederate force north of the York 
River to prevent the Union commander from turning the position of 
Yorktown, nor for many days after. General McClellan is somewhat 
excused by the mditary conditions in Virginia about this time. Tliey 
wei-e concisely stated in a letter from General Keyes to Senator Harris, 
a letter to be shown to the President and Secretary of War. Keyes says : 
<< # » * The greatest master of the art of war has said ' that if you 



■would invade a country successfully, you must have one line of opera- 
tions and one army under one general.' But what is our condition ? 
The State of Virginia is made to constitute the command in part or 
■wholly, of some six generals, viz., Fremont, Banks, McDowell, Wool, 
Bumside and McClellan, besides the scrap over tlie Chesapeake in the 
command of Dix. The greiit battle of the war is to come off here. If 
we win it, the Reb I'ion will be crushed; if we loose it, the conse- 
quences will be more horrible than I can tell." (Terrible prophesy). 
" * ■* * It is no doubt agreeable to the commander of the First Corps 
(McDowell) to have a separate department. * * *." That letter 
doomed General Keyes. The following letter of the President to General 
McClellan, dated April 9th, is given to show a certain condition of affairs 
then existing: "Your dispatches complaining that you are not prop- 
erly sustained, while they do not offend me, do pain me very much. 
Blenker's division was withdrawn from you before you left here, and 
you know the pressure " (to give Fremont a command?) " under which I 
did it, and as I thought, acquiesced in it, certainly not without reluc- 
tance * * * but you must act." 

The pressure by certain newspapers, by certain extremists, and by 
the Committee on the Conduct of the War, on the one side, and General 
McClellan's natural inertness on the other, placed Mr. Lincoln in a most 
difficult position. This is the true defence of liim for issuing the fatal 
military order which deprived McClellan of an essential part of his force 
at the outset of his campaign. 

The Confederates abandoned their lines at Yorktown May 4th. 
McClellan followed slowly, his troops being much delayed by the muddy 
state of the roads, which were few in number and narrow, mere coun- 
try roads. The cavalry, under General Stoneman, met the enemy near 
Williamsburg on the 4th. The infantry, under Generals Heintzelman, 
Sumner, Keyes, Hooker, Hancock, Kearney, Smith and other officers 
fought the battle of WiUiamsburg May 5th and 6th. The march of the 
Union Army continued slowly towards the Chickahominy, which the 
advance reached on the 20th, at Bottoms' Bridge. They found this 
bridge, as well as the railroad bridge a mile above, destroyed. 

' ' The Chickahominy in this vicinity (where the Union Army 
approached it) is about forty feet wide, fringed with a dense growth of 
heavy forest trees, and bordered by low, marshy bottom lands, varying 
from half a mUe to a mile in width. Our operations embraced that part 
of the river between Bottoms' and Meadow bridges, which covered the 



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principal a])y)roafhes -to Ric-linn)nd from the east. Within these limits 
tlie firm Ki"<>"n(l lying above high water mark seldom approaches near 
the river on either bank, and no locality was found within this section 
where the high ground came near the stream on botli sides. It was sub- 
ject to fre({uent, sudden and great variations in the volume of water, 
and a rise of a few feet overflowed the bottom lands on both sides. At 
low water it could be forded at almost any point, but during high water 
it rose above a fording stage, and coidd then be crossed only at a few 
l)oints wliere bridges had been constructed. These bridges had all been 
destroyed by the enemy on our approach, and it was necessaiy not only 
to reconstruct these, but to build several others. The west bank of the 
river opposite the" New and Mechanicsville bridges was bordered by ele- 
vated blufTs, which afforded the enemy commanding positions to fortify, 
establish his batteries, enfilading the approaches upon the two principal 
roads to Richmond on our right, and resist the reconstruction of the 
important 1 ridges. This obliged us to select other less exposed points 
for our crossings." The left (Casey's Division) was moved across the 
river near Bottoms' Bridge about the 20th, and the left of the army 
(Keyes and Heintzelman's Corps) was the next two days crossed over, 
and soon after advanced to Seven Pines, and to the right, and rifle pits 
for infantry and epaulements for artillery were commenced. Tlie centre 
and right of the army were advanced to the north bank of the river, 
and Mechanicsville was taken on the 24th. Secretary Stanton writes 
McClellnn, May 18: "McDovveU (then near Fredericksburg) has been 
ordered to march upon that city (Richmond) by the shortest route. He 
is ordered — keeping himself always in position, to save the capitol from 
all possible attack — so to operate as to put his left wing in communica- 
tion with your right wing, and you are instructed to co-operate, so as to 
establish this communication as soon as possible, by extending your 
right wing north of Richmond. It is believed this communication can 
be safely established either north or south of the Pamunky river. * * " 
An order worthy of the Aulic Council. A committee of the Mflitary 
Historical Society of Massachusetts, to which was referred the subject 
of " McClellan's plans of campaign of 1862, and the alleged interference 
of the Government with them," report upon the latter that, '' There can be 
no doubt that the Government has behaved towards McClellan for 
some months before the campaign opened in a manner which your 
committee consider alike unjust to him, injurious to the morale of hi& 
army, and detrimental to the success of our arms. Fe^r men at the 



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head of affairs during a great war have evtn- given^uch evidence of an 
entire unfitness to have general direction over military men as Mr. Lin- 
cohi and Mr, Stanton." It is believed this criticism, though made to 
and approved by a great liistorical society, a generation after the closf> 
of the war, is too severe on Mr. Lincoln. Tlie writer's explanation or 
defence of Mr. Lincoln is that his better judgment was often over-rule<l 
by the Committee on the Conduct of the War (vvliose rei^resentative in 
the Cabinet was Mr. Stanton), wiio controlled a two-thirds majority of 
Congress, this committee being backed up by most powerful news- 
papers and popular orators. McClellan writes to Washington, May 21, 
i< * » « Frankness compels me to say, anxious as I am for an increase 
of force, that the march of McDowell's column upon Richmond by the 
shortest route will, in my opinion, uncover Washington, as to any 
interposition by it, as completely as its movement by water. The 
enemy cannot advance by Fredericksburg on Washington. Should they 
attempt a movement, which to me seems utterly improbable, their 
route would be by Gordonsville and Manassas," McClellan was right 
in his science, but ill-informed as to the movements of the enemy, 
Jac^kson was then advancing from Gordonsville to the valley of the 
Shenandoah. In consequence of Jackson's movement McDowell's was 
suspended, and most of his command sent to the valley. 

A Confederate force having advanced on the right of the Army of 
the Potomac beyond Hanover Court House, interposing between that 
army and McDowell, General Porter, commanding on McCleJlan's right, 
went, May 27, with Morrell's Division and other troops, about 8,000 men, 
to Hanover Court House, where he met a Confederate force under 
General Branch. Porter defeated the enemy, causing him a severe loss 
in killed, wounded and jirisoners. 

On the 30th of May tlie Union troops on the south side of the 
Chickahominy were : Casey's Division, on the right of the Williamsburg 
Road, and at right angles to it, the centre at Fair Oaks; Couch's Division 
at Seven Pines, Kearney's Division on railroad from Savage Station 
towards Bottoms' Bridge, Hooker's Division near White Oak Swamp. 
During the day of the 30th and the following night a violent rain fell, 
rendering work on the rifle pits and bridges impracticable. The enemy 
took advantage of it, and on the 31st attacked first Casey's Division, 
and then Couch's. Heintzelman's Corps was brought up to the assist- 
ance of Keyes' Corps. The Confederates obtained great advantages at 
first, but Hooker's and Kearney's divisions sustained the struggle vmtU 



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Sumner succeeded, after herculean efforts, in getting up a battery 
(Kirby's) and one division of his infantry. Sumner s Bridge, over which 
he crossed his force, was kept in place by the weight of liis troops, it dis- 
appearing as soon as the troops left it. There is no doubt but that the 
Union trooi)s made a most gallant resistance on the olst, and an equally 
gallant advance on the morning of June 1st. The losses of the Union 
forces engaged were very heavy. 

"The approaches to New and Mechanicsville bridges were also 
overflowed, and both of them were enfiladed by the enemy's batteries, 
established upon commanding heights upon the opposite bank. * * * 
The only available means, therefore, of uniting our forces at Fair Oaks for 
an advance on Richmond soon after the battle was to march the troops 
from Mechanicsville and other points on the left bank of the Cbicka- 
hominy down to Bottoms' Bridge, and thence over the Williamsburg Road 
to the position at Fair Oaks, a distance of about twenty-three miles. 
The idea of uniting the two wings of the army with the prospect of 
overtaking the enemy before he reached Richmond, only five miles 
distant, is absurd, * * * and was never for a moment seriously 
entertained by anyone connected with the Army of the Potomac." 

The losses of the Union Army at Fair Oaks were about 7 000. 
McClellan asked that troops be detached from Halleck's army (which at 
this time had no large force in its front), and sent to the Army of the 
Potomac. Halleck's army was however broken up and scattered all 
over the West, resulting soon in Bi agg's invasion of Kentucky. 

On the 13th and 14th of June Stuart made his raid around the Army 
of the Potomac ; the Union cavalry at this time was distributed through- 
out the army, only one small brigade, under General P. St. G. Cooke, 
being kept together. 

The Pennsylvania Reserves joined the Army of the Potomac on 12th 
and 14th of June. Were first placed on the railroad between the White 
House and Tunstall's Station ; afterwards joined Porter's corps. In regard 
to this division General McClellan telegraphed Secretary Stanton on the 
14th : " It ought to be distinctly imderstood that McDowell and his 
troops axe completely imder my control. I received a telegram from 
him re(inesting that McCall's Division might be placed so as to join him 
immediately on his arrival. That request does not breathe the proper 
spirit. Whatever troops come to me must be disposed of so as to do the 
most good. I do not feel that in such circumstances as those in which I 



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axD now placed General McDowell should wish the general interests sac- 
rificed for the purpose of increasing his command." 

Woodward writes : "On a Sunday morning, the 8th of June, (Divi- 
f-ion) ordered to pre})are to majch and marched that night hy a fine 
moonlight, weeding our way by music of our bands down the Rappahan- 
nock, seven miles, where we bivouaced. The next morning marched 
to Gray's Landing and embarked * * * as happy a set of blue coats 
as ever trod a planet. * * * At 9 o'clock (12lh) First Brigade marched 
up the railroad, j)assing Tunstall's Station about 4 o'clock ; passed 
Despatch Station and moved to the right of the road and camped at the 
head of a heavy wood near the Chickahominy river, having marched 
about ten miles. Through the day we heard the slow fire of heavy 
guns. * * * Rested the 13th ; moved that night to Tunstall's Sta- 
tion." This latter movement was made to intercept Stuart's cavalry. 
The Third Brigade, now commanded by General Seymour, was delayed 
on the Rappahannock, waiting for transports. This accidental delay 
caused that brigade to arrive at White House on the Pamunky, June 
14th, most opportunely, enabling it to frustrate Stuart's designs on the 
Array of the Potomac's base of supplies, at this time located here. 

On the 17th of June the whole Reserve division was concentrated at 
Despatch Station except four companies of the First Rifles, which were 
under Lieutenant-Colonel Kane serving in the Valley of the Shenandoah, 
and the Sixth Regiment, Colonel Sinclair, left at Tunstall's Station. The 
division was to be reviewed by General McClellan at this point, but he 
failed to put in an appearance, and on the 18th it marched along the 
road parallel to and north of the Chickahominy to Gaines' Farm. 

Woodward, of the Fourth, in ** Our Campaigns" (a most interesting 
book) says : " The Nineteenth moved to Ellison's Mill, on the river road 
where it crosses the Beaver Dam Creek, about one and one-half miles, 
then countermarched and moved to the left ; bivouaced in an oat field 
where Rush's Lancers were encamped. Professor Lowe made a balloon 
ascension ; enemy's fire made him descend. Early next morning 
moved back about a mile to Nanaley's Mill. Early on the 24th started 
on picket to Media nicsville, about one mile distant, where we found the 
Twelfth Reserves, four companies of Rush's Lancers and Cooper's battery. 
Colonel Taggart in command of the line as senior officer. Our regiment 
forming the reserve, we laid in the grove of Dr. Lumkin's house. 
Mechanicsville lies on the high ground overlooking the Chickahominy 
on its north bank, from which it is about 500 yards distant. It consists 



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of a church and about iif teen houses, all of wliich were deserted and per- 
forated by shot and shell. The south bank of tlie river rises gradually 
for about a half mile, where a long line of redoubts and rifle pits front a 
heavy wood. In the centi-e of the stream is an i^.JaLid, which is connected 
with either shore by a bridge, we holding one end of it, and the enemy 
the other, the island being neutral ground. The pickets at tliis point, 
although quite near each other, remained on good terms, the enemy's 
relief upon one occasion presenting arms to Lieutenant-Colonel Mclnty re 
of the First Reserves, as he was visiting one of our posts. We were dis- 
posed to show acts of courtesy to one another, as \\'e daily expected to 
meet in battle. Richmond is but five miles distant from Meclianicsville, 
and from a shed near the roadside we could see the spires. One of our 
officers wagered a hundred cigars he would be in the city in a week ; he 
was, but as a prisoner. During the night the position of our guns was 
changed, and General Reynolds required hourly reports in writing, there 
being strong indication of a movement by the enemy. Cooper, at 5 a. m. 
on the 25th, fired about twenty shells ; there was no response. We sub- 
sequently learned the enemy were then making a move to oiu- right." 



CHAPTER V. 

BATTLE OF MECHANICSVILLE, JUNE 36, 1863. 
On the 19th of June the greater part of the Reserve Division waa 
directed to move from Gaines' Farm to Mechanicsville to relieve Taylor's 
Brigade of Franklin's Division at above-named village, then the extreme 
right of the Army of the Potomac. The First and Third Brigades, com- 
manded respectively by Generals Reynolds and Seymom-, veere posted 
on the left bank of Beaver Dam Creek in a line nearly perpendicular 
to the Chickahominy, in a position naturally strong, the Third Brigade 
on the left near Ellison's MiU, the First on the right. One regiment and 
a battery w^ere sent to Mechanicsville and a strong picket line v^as 
extended from Mechanicsville to Meadovs^ bridges. Beaver Dam Creek 
was impracticable for artillery except at the bridges, one at Ellison's 
Mi'll, and a second about a half mile above. On the right of the upper 
bridge an epaulement for artillery was thrown up and rifle pits and 
slashings of timber were made in front of each brigade, especially- 
near the bridges. The Eighth Illinois Cavalry, Colonel Farns worth, 
patrolled the woods towards Hanover Court House and to the Pamunky. 
The Union troops at the beginning of the engagement were posted as 
follows : First Brigade on the right ; Second Regiment, Lieutenant- 
Colonel McCandless, (seven companies) on extreme right ; on its left 
the First Regiment, Colonel Roberts ; on its left Eighth Regiment, 
Colonel Hays ; six companies of First Rifles on picket at the railroad 
and Meadow bridges ; the Fifth Regiment, Colonel Simmons, on picket 
at Mechanicsville ; the Third Brigade, General Seymour commanding, 
on left of First Brigade, consisting of Tenth Regiment, Colonel Kirk, 
on right of Ellison's Mill Road ; eight companies of Twelfth Regiment 
posted in rifle pits on both sides of the lower (Ellison's Mill) road, and 
two companies. Captain Mathewson's B and Captain Gustin's C, at a 
rifle pit near Ellison's Mill, in advance, on the right of the road, which 
CJommanded the meadow between our position and the advance of the 
enemy ; (Sixth Regiment, Colonel Sinclair, absent at Tunstall's Station), 
and the Ninth Regiment, Colonel Jackson, in reserve. 



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The Second Brigade, General Meade, consisting of the Tliird, Colonel 
Sickel; Fourth, Colonel Magilton ; Seventli, Colonel Harvey; and 
Eleventh, Colonel Gallagher, was held iu reserve. The Eleventh being 
on picket along the Chickahominy, four scjuadrons of Fourth Pennsyl- 
vania Cavalry, Colonel Cliilds, attached to the division of Pennsylvania 
Reserves, held in reserve. 

The artillery of the Division, Captain DeHart, Chief of Artilleiy, 
consisted of DeHart's Battery C, Fifth United States ; six light twelve- 
pounders, posted near centre of the line, near which was a section of 
Kern's Battery B, First Artillery, the balance, four guns of Kern's Bat- 
tery (all ten-pounder howitzers), on the extreme right of the line ; Coop- 
er's Battery B, First Pennsylvania Artillery ; six ten-pounder Parrotts, 
two guns under Lieutenant Fullerton on left of road near Ellison's Mill, 
the other four guus with Kern's on extreme right ; Easton's Battery A, 
First Pennsylvania Artillery, four twelve-pounders, on right of Ellison's 
Mill road ; Smead's Battery K, Fifth United States, six twelve-pounders, 
two guns under Lieutenant Van Read near Easton's Battery, the bal- 
ance of Smead's Battery on left of the upper road. MartLndale's and 
Griffin's Brigades of MoiTell's Division and Edwards' Battery L and M, 
Third United States, were ordered to support McCall's Division. 

According to General Lee's order of battle, " General Jackson was 
to march from Ashland on 25th in the direction of Sla^li Church, 
encamping for the night west of the Central Railroad, and to advance 
at 3 A. M. on 26th to turn Beaver Dam. A. P. Hill was to cross the 
Chickahominy at Meadow Bridge when Jackson's advance beyond that 
point should be known, and move directly on Mechanicsville. as soon as 
the Mechanicsville bridge should be uncovered. Longstreet and D. H. 
Hill were to cross, the latter to proceed to the support of Jackson, and 
the former to that of A. P. Hill. The four commands were directed to 
sweep down the north side of the Chickahominy toward the York rail- 
road, Jackson on the left and in advance, Longstreet nearest the river 
and in rear. Huger and Magruder were ordered to hold their positions 
against any assault of the enemy, to observe his movements, and to fol- 
low Iiim closely should he retreat. * * * Stuart's Cavalry was sent 
out on Jackson's right flank, and Pendleton's reserve artillery was left 
on Richmond side of Chickahominy, but to be used as required." 

Jackson's march was delayed by obstructions placed in its way by 
Stoneman's Cavalry. General A. P. HUl says : "In obedience to orders 
I concenti-ated (June 26), my division near Meadow Bridge, viz. , the 



brigades of J. R. Anderson, Gregg, Field, Pender, and Archer, the brig- 
ade of Brancli having been directed to move to the bridge, some seven 
miles above, where the Brooke Turnpike crosses the Chickahominy, 
the batteries of Braxton, Andrews, Pegram, Crenshaw, Mcintosh, Bach- 
man and Johnson, vrith four extra, horses each (Johnson accompanied 
Branch), in all about 14,000 men."' Jackson was to inform Branch of 
his near appro.ach, and the latter was then to cross the Chickahominy 
and move down the river road and clear j\Ieadow Bridge. This done, 
A. P. Hill was to cross Meadow Bridge and move do^vn to Mechanics- 
ville and clear that bridge for Longstreet and D. H. Hill. 

Branch heard of Jackson's approach about 10 A. M. He then crossed 
the Chickahominy and endeavored to carry out his instructions, but was 
delayed by the Union shirmishers. Neither Branch nor Jackson appear- 
ing, and fearing, as he (A. P. Hill) says, that the whole plan would fail, 
he determined to cross the Chickahomijay without waiting for Branch. 
Field's Brigade seized Meadow Bridge without serious opposition, the 
Union force falling back to Mechanicsville. Field advanced toward. 
Mechauicsville, followed by Anderson's and Ai-cher's brigades. Gregg' 
and Pender, after crossing the Chickahominy, turned short to their right 
and moved through the fields to cover the right of the cohimn. A. P. 
Hill says : " The enemy opened a concentric fire of artillery on the head 
of Field's column, who, throwing his brigade into line of battle, with 
Pegram in the centre, steadily advancing, drove the enemy from 
Mechanicsville.*' Until the Confederates had passed Mechanicsville 
they were opposed only by the Union batteries and skirmishers. The 
Fifth Regiment, Colonel Simmons commanding, picketing at Meadow 
and jMechanicsville bridges, seeing the enemy advancing in force, fell 
back in accordance with orders, and took position in the line of battle on 
the right. 

The advance of the Confederate force down the river road forced 
back the Union cavalry, and three companies of the First Rifles were 
sent to its assistance. Major Stone, commanding the First Rifles (Buck- 
tails), who opened this notable battle, says: "At 1 P. M. (June 26),. 
■while my regiment (six companies, the other four companies being 
absent in the Shenandoah Valley,) was doing picket duty on the extreme 
right of our line, two companies occupying the railroad and Meadow 
bridges over the Chickahominy, one company on the left of the bridges 
and the remaining three companies in reserve, I was ordered to take 
my reserve companies to the assistance of the cavalry, who were falling 



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l>ack before the enemy, already advanced to Atlee's Station. I moved 
rapidly forward, posted Captain Wistar's company at the junction of 
^he three roads leading to Meadow Bridge, Crenshaw's Bridge and 
-Atlee's Station ; deployed Captain Irvin's company across Crenshaw's 
sroad, 300 yards in advance, and moved Captain Jewett's company for- 
ward toward Atlee's, to act as skirmishers for the cavalry beyond the 
road leading off to Shady Grove Church. * - * Captain Jewett had 
scarcely deployed when the enemy's infantry appeared in his front in 
heavy force. He opened fire on them at short range and with great 
effect. The enemy halted in confusion ; when they had re-formed he 
gave them a second volley. At this moment I learned that my com- 
panies guarding the Meadow and railroad bridges had been withdrawn 
by order of Colonel Simmons, commanding the Grand Guard, and the 
enemy had immediately crossed. I immediately sounded the recall and 
directed Captain Jewett to move rapidly to the rear. I rode back to 
the junction, where I found Captain Wistar already engaged with the 
enemy's troops approaching from Meadow Bridge. His determined 
front and steady fire liad checked their advance, but they were gather- 
ing heavier forces to the front, ajid soon forced hina to retire. His route 
to Meehanicsville was already interrupted and he fell back to the north, 
•t^ontesting every inch of the ground. I went back to meet Captain 
Jewett's command, turned him off to the left, and, with a small rear guard 
of cavalry, made a wide detour to the north. * * * Captain Irwin 
liad been advised by the same messenger who brought me news of the 
enemy's flank movement to retire to a safe position, but he declined to 
do so without orders. When I sent him orders it was already too late, 
and he was entirely surrounded. I heard heavy firing in his direction. 
* * * None of them returned to camp. (They retired to a swamp 
and were finally starved out.) "With the other companies I succeeded, 
after a long and fatiguing march through woods and swamps, part of 
the way under fire, in making my way to the ford in the swamp above 
niy camp. The three companies which had been recalled from picket 
had already come safely in. * * * Two companies of United States 
Sharpshooters, Captains Drew and Giroux, attached to my command 
during the (subsequent) action behaved with great steadiness and deliv- 
«ei'ed a most effective fire." The Bucktails and Sharpshooters joined the 
Second Regiment in holding the ford above the upper bridge. 

Anderson's Confederate Brigade moved to the left of Field's to take 
in reverse a Union battery which " was spiteful in its activity ;" Mcln- 



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tosh's Battery was advanced to support Pegram, then Archer's Brigade 
was moved Lo further support Field's left, and Braxton's Battery was 
advanced to support Mcintosh's. Gregg and Pender, advancing over 
the fields, covered Field s right and attacked the Union force at Ellison's 
Mills. The five brigades of A. P. Hill's Division, with Pegram's, 
Andrew's, Mcintosh's and Braxton's Batteries in the advance, using 
their utmost strength and skill, were unable to force any part of the 
Union line. General Lee and President Davis now, in person, ur^-ed on 
the Confederates, who made desperate efforts to carry some point of the 
Union line ; but after very heavy losses, these advance brigades gave up 
the attempt and fell back to a safer distance and opened musketry fire. 
Branch's Brigade now, near sunset, coming down from the North, with 
Johnson's Battery, was put in to support Field, and a new effort was 
made to carry the ford near the upper bridge; but the Second Regiment,, 
gallantly led by McCandless, and the Bucktails by Major Stone, succeeded 
in repulsing all effo;-ts of the enemy to carry this ford. A portion of 
Gregg's and Pender's Brigades, and Ripley's Brigade of D. H. Hill's 
Division, supported by the whole of A. P. Hill's Artillery, at the same 
time as Branch's attack, at dusk, made a desperate attempt to carry the 
left of the Union line near Ellison's Mill. This final effort of the Con- 
federates was repulsed with severe loss to them, some of their regiments 
being practically annihUated. In the meantime, the First and Third 
Pennsylvania Reserve Brigades had been reinforced by Edwards' Bat- 
tery, the Seventh Regiment Pennsylvania Reserves and a Massachusetts 
regiment, all posted on the left of the Ellison's Mill road, and by Martin- 
dale's and Griffin's brigades, which were sent to the extreme riglit 
where the ground was open and the whole line liable to be turned. The 
Fourth Michigan and four companies of Fourteenth Brooklyn, N. Y., 
Regiment, were sent, near dark, to relieve the Fifth Regiment at the 
ford, whose ammunition was exhausted. The firing ceased only with 
darkness, with the Reserves holding firmly their entire line. 

General Porter, commanding Union troops north of the Chika- 
hominy, says : "For our success at the battle of MechanicsviUe I desire 
especially to commend the admirable dispositions made by Generals 
Reynolds and Seymour, owmg to which, with the skillful management 
of their men, the losses were few." Seven brigades of Confederates, 
supported by two divisions, were engaged : at least 18,000 actually took 
part, whcse losses werfe at least 2,000. Two brigades of Union troops, 
supported by three brigades, only two brigades seriouslv engaged* 



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about 6,000. Loss of Union side, 33 killed, 150 wounded, and Irwin's 
company Fii-dt Rifles captured 70 men. Twelfth Regiment lost : 2 
iilled, 11 wounded and o missing. 

McCall's report says : " Where all so gallantly supported the honor of 
the flag, it would seem almost invidious to particularize, but my thanks 
are particularly due to Generals Reynolds and Seymour, and to Colonels 
Simmons, Taggart, Lieutenant-Colonel McCandless and Major Stone, 
v\dio were all closely engaged." General Seymour, the only general left 
with the divibion after the seven days, in his official report says : '" In 
the absence of General Reynolds I may say that much of the credit of this 
day belongs to him. His study of the grounds and ample preparations, 
«ven to the smallest detail, justify his high reputation as a soldier. * * * 
General Meade came up with his brigade, and by his advice, as well as 
by the presence of his command, was of valuable assistance. Major 
Stone, with rare intellierence, prepared his position and fought it like a 
true soldier to the end ; and to Colonel Simmons, since dead, the same 
praise is due. To Colonel Taggart, of the Twelfth Reserves, praise is 
due for the good service rendered by his regiment, which held on the 
left the crossing at Ellison's Mill with the greatest tenacity, repelling 
several assaults. Colonel Jackson, of the Ninth, deserves good mention 
for the skill with which he relieved the Twelfth, withdrew himself from 
battle and covered the movement to Gaines' Mill. Colonel Roberts on 
the right rendered excellent service, as did Lieutenant-Colonel McCand- 
less, preventing that part of the line from being forced. To tlie artillery 
arm belongs also much credit. Captain Easton, since dead, repeated 
his glorious conduct of Dranesville, directing his guns with great 
•effect. * * * Lieutenant Fullerton, on the left with the Twelfth, 
"did excellent service. * * * Men never behaved better. To their 
constancy and courage, after all, the good stand made against a greatly 
superior force is due, and Pennsylvania may forever be proud of the 
memories connected with the deeds of her sons at Mechanicsville." It 
Taeing certainly ascertained on the 26th that Jackson's army was moving 
to turn the right of the army, it was decided during that night to with- 
draw the troops from the advanced liosition at Beaver Dam Creek, and 
i;o form a line covering the bridge over the Cliickahominy. Orders 
were received by General McCall a short time before daylight to with- 
<iraw. These orders were received so late the withdrawal had to be 
made by dayhght, a most diflScult and dangerous movement. 

• Martindale's, Griffin's and Meade's brigades were withdrawn first 



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and without injury to them. Init the movement was noticed by the 
enemy, who immediately began etTorts to cross Beaver Dam Creek. 
These efforts brought on a serious engagement, as the men of the 
Twelfth, supported by the Ninth and the Rifles, the latter covering the 
withdrawal of the First Brigade, answered the Confederate attack with 
a furious fire. Tidball's and Robertson's horse batteries were sent to 
assist the infantry. The fire of this Union force was strong enough to 
check the advance of the Confederate skirmishers and enable the whole 
Union force to withdraw without any serious loss of material or men. 

Of this movement McClellan, in his official report, says: "The 
delicate operation of withdrawing the troops from Beaver Dam Creek 
was commenced shortly before daylight, and successfully executed. 
Meade's and Griffin's brigades were the first to leave the ground ; Sey- 
mour's Brigade covered the rear with the horse batteries of Tidball and 
Robertson ; but the withdrawal was so skillful and gradual, and the 
repulse of the preceding day so complete that, although the enemy fol- 
lowed the retreat closely and some skirmishing occurred, he did not 
appear in front of the new line in force until about noon of the 27th, 
when we were prepared to receive hiiu." General Porters report states : 
" The firing ceased about 9 p. m,, and the men lay on their arms in ranks 
as they stood during the day, while exertions were being made by their 
officers to refill the exhausted cartridge-boxes, and to bring food to 
such men as had none in their haversacks. * * * AH was made 
ready for a renewal of the contest on the old ground, or an advance 
towards Richmond via the bridges which the enemy had crossed, should 
cm Success warrant it. During the night, however, as the Command- 
ing General (who had joined us at an early hour in the afternoon and 
remained until about 10 o'clock at night) is aware, numerous accounts 
came in which tended to corroborate intelligence of the advance of 
Jackson's force from the direction of Gordonsville, whereby our right 
was to be effectually flanked without at all weakening the force in our 
immediate front. It was thus rendered necessary to select which side 
of the Chickahominy should be held in force, there being on each side 
an army of our enemies equivalent, in connection with their breast- 
works" (liaving over 200 permanent guns in iDosition), " to the whole of 
our own. And these armies and defences well connected with each other 
and with Richmond, their base." 

This statement, made by General Porter, July 8, 18G2, in the light of 
subsequent information, is substantially correct. Whereas there were 



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at that time Union forces, not under McClellan, operating against the 
Confederate force in Virginia, exclusive of necessary garrisons, almost if 
not quite equal in numbers for dut}"- to the Army of the Potomac. Such 
being the case, was McClellan's army fairly supported by the Govern- 
ment ? Was there not a systematic effort on the part of certain persons 
to deceive both Mr. Lincoln and the geoeral public as to the number of 
men for duty in the Army of the Potomac, increasing that number, 
at the same time belittling that in the numerous Union commands scat- 
tered all about Virginia's circumference ? 

How else can we account for the exceptional dullness of the Gov- 
ernment and the people, in expecting an inferior army to take a forti- 
fied place garrisoned by a superior force. 

It may thus be understood why membei's of the Army of the Potomac 
of that time clung to McClellan ever after, with all his faults. When 
one considers the feelings of the men, who, after so grand a success as 
was that of the first day, found that their skill and valor had been 
thrown away, because so small a force (which might so easily have 
been larger) was expected to accomf)lish the impossible. Who now doubts 
that if McClellan had had the reinforcements he might have received 
without injury to any interest, the battle of Mechanicsville would have 
been but the prelude to the destruction of Jackson's force ? How fear- 
fully vvas General Keyes" prophesy to be verified ! 

Colonel Taggerfs report of Jiily 5th, 1862, says: "On the next 
morning, June 27th, having orders to fall back, I ordered the rifle pits 
to be cleared, and the men to form on the road in the rear. The firing 
had commenced in the morning and was kept up with spirit on both 
sides, which made the task of getting the men out of the rifle pits a dif- 
ficult and dangerous one. In fact, many of the men seemed so deter- 
mined to stay, that they either did not hear the order to fall back, or 
would not do so, and a number (perhaps twenty) were left behind, and 
were either killed, wounded or taken prisoners. Captain Gustin's com- 
pany at the Mill, being detached from the regiment, was in a perilous 
position and in danger of being cut off. They maintained their position 
for nearly an hour single-handed after my regiment had left, and large 
bodies of the enemy's troops had crossed the creek and attempted to 
surround them. Captain Gustin finally succeeded in withdrawing his 
company with only three men wounded. Captain Gustin's conduct on 
this occasion was worth}' of all praise. 

Captain Mathewson succeeded in withdrawing liis compau}' at an 



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early hour of the day. I regret to report that nearly all the men left 
their knapsacks and many their haversacks behind them, not having 
time to secure them before leaving. We moved slowly towards Gaines' 
Creek, where we halted and took up a new position, in compUance with 
orders from General McCall. I desire to mention particularly the good 
conduct of the officers and men on the occasion. Major Baldy was 
active and energetic in cheering on the men, and gallantly exposing 
himself while the battle lasted. Captains Daniels, Mathewson, Gustin, 
Horn, Schelling, Oliver, Baker, Bolar and Eyster, were constantly with 
their men, encouraging them by their exhibition of coolness and 
bravery. Captain Oliver received a slight wound in tbe cheek, but con- 
tinued on duty till the battle closed. Captain Bolar rendered excellent 
service by o^ serving with his field glass the effect of our fire, both artil- 
lery and infantry. The subaltern and non-commissioned officers are 
equally deserving honorable mention as well as the men. All did their 
duty nobly. Adjutant McMurtrie, Avho was under fire the whole time, 
is deserving of honorable mention for his coolness and bravery and the 
alacrity with which he obeyed all orders intrusted to his charge. Lieu- 
tenant FuUerton, commanding the section of artillery, displayed great 
coolness and intrepidity. He worked his guns without intermission for 
nearly five hours. I respectfully present the name of this officer to 
attention of the General commanding." 



CHAPTER VI. 

GAINES' MILL. ALLEN'S FARM AND SAVAGE STATION. 

General McCall's report states : " My division moved leisurely and 
steadily to the ground designated in rear of Gaines' Mill, wliere it arrived 
at 10 A. M. Here I was notified by General Porter that my division, 
having been deprived of mvich sleep during the previous night and hav- 
ino- been engaged for three hours that morning with the enemy, would 
"be held in reserve that day." General McClellan's report states : " The 
position at Beaver Dam Creek, although so successfully defended, had its 
right flank too much in the air, and was too far from the main army to 
make it available to retain it longer. I therefore determined to send the 
heavy guns at Hogan's and Gaines" houses over the Chickahotniny dur- 
ing the night, with as many of the wagons of the Fifth Corps as possible, 
and to draw the corps itself to a position stretching around the bridges, 
where its flanks would be reasonably secure and it would be within sup- 
porting distance of the main army. General Porter carried out my 
orders to that effect. It was not advisable at that time, even had it been 
practicable, to withdraw the Fifth Corps to the right bank of the Chicka- 
hominy. Such a movement would have exposed the rear of the army, 
placed it between two fires, and enabled Jackson's fresh troops to inter- 
rupt the movement to James River, by crossing the Cliickahominy in the 
vicinity of Jones Bridge before we could reach ]\ralvern Hill with our 
trains." Morell's Division held the left of the line in a strip of woods on. 
the left bank of the Gaines' Mill stream, resting its left flank on the 
descent to the Cliickahominy, which was swept by our artillery on both 
sides of the river, and extendiiig into open ground on the right towards 
New Cold Harbor. In this line General Butterfield's Brigade held the 
extreme left. General Martindale's joined his light, and General Griffin's, 
still farther to the right, joined the left of Sykes' Division, which, partly 
in the woods and partly in open ground, extended in the rear of Cold 
Harbor. Each brigade had in reserve t%vo of its own regiments. McCall's 
Division was formed in a second line in rear of the first ; Mtade's 
Brigade on the left, near the Cliickahominy; Reynolds' Brigade on the 



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right, covering the approaches from Cold Harbor and Dispatch Station 
to Sumner's Bridge ; and Seymour's Brigade in reserve to the second line, 
still farther in the rear. 

General P. St. George Cooke (commanding cavalry) was posted be- 
hind a hill in rear of (left of) the position and near the Chickahonnny. 
The troops were all in position by noon, with the artillery on the com- 
manding ground and in the intervals between the divisions and brigades. 
Besides the division batteries, there were Robertson's and Tidball's horse 
batteries from the artillery reserve, the latter posted on the right of 
Sykes' Division, and the former on the extreme left of the line in the val- 
ley of the Chickahominy. 

Porter's report says : " Believing my force too small to defend suc- 
cessfully so long a line, I asked of General Barnard (Chief Engineer of 
the Army), who had selected and pointed out this position, to represent 
to the Major-General commanding the necessity of reinforcements, and 
he was to send me felling axes for defensive purposes." General Bar- 
nard neglected these requests. Porter and others contend that if they had 
heen attended to, that is, if Porter had received reinforcements earlier, 
and had had axes to intrench his new position, the first position taken 
up could have been held. 

Porter's report further states : ' ' Deserters from their ranks and 
loyal citizens of Virginia represented that General Jackson, with 50,000 
men, had j 'ined his forces with those of A. P. Hill and D. H. Hill and 
Longstreet, from Richmond, and that they were advancing with the 
determination to overwhelm and crush the Arjny of the Potomac." 
(Lee's plan as heretofore given was, in fact, at this time being carried 
out.) " The dust fi'om the immense columns of the enemy could be 
seen for miles, and soon our scouts and pickets warned us that they 
were extending over our whole front. About 2 P. M. they began with 
their skirmishers to feel for the weakest point of our position, and soon 
large bodies of infantry, supported by a warm fire cf artillery, engaged 
our whole line. Repulsed in every direction, a few houi-s of ominous 
silence ensued, indicating that their trooiDS were being massed for an 
overwhelming attack. Our infantry and artillery were di'awn in 
towards the centre and posted to meet the avalanche. Reinforcements 
were again asked for and all available troops were sent forward by the 
Commanding General." The answers of Keyes, Heintzelman, Sumner, 
and Franklin, the corps commanders south of the Chickahominy, to 
McClellan's circular of the 26th asking how many troops they could 



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each spare to help Porter, and the telegrams from the same on the 27th, 
would seem to confirm Porter's statement. Franklin sent Slocum's 
Division, Sumner, French's and Maogher's brigades. Heintzelman, 
Avhose corps had been engaged on the 35th, could spare none, but sent 
troops to take French's and Maeghers place on Sumner's line. 

Porter's report continues as follows : "About »j o'clock the enemy 
renewed the attack, advancing immense bodies of infantry under cover of 
artillery, along the road from Cold Harbor to the Adam's House, immedi- 
ately upon our right and centre, where Sykes' Division and Griffin's 
brigade were placed. This furious attack was successfully resisted and 
repulsed, but immediately renewed by fresh troops, and the reserves 
were pushed as rapidly as possible into the woods to the support of 
Griffin, whose regiments were relieved upon the expenditure of their 
ammunition. This and all our positions were held against the enormous 
odds, and the enemy were at times driven back by our battalions of 
fresh troops as they were successively thrown into action. At each 
repulse by us fresh troops were thrown by the enemy upon our exhausted 
forces, and in such numbers and so rapidly that it appeared as if their 
reserves were inexhaustible. * * * The promised reinforcements 
(Slocum's Division) arrived just as the last of McCall's troops had been 
sent in to the relief of those of Morell's battalions, whose ammunition 
had been exhausted, or to take the place of those which had been nearly 
cut to pieces. Newton's Brigade of Slocum's Division, being in advance, 
was promptly led, regiment by regiment, to the right of Griffin's 
Brigade and left of Sykes' Division, into the thickest of the fight by its 
gallant commander, and was soon followed in the same manner by 
Taylor's Brigade, each regiment relieving the regiment in advance as 
soon as the ammunition of the latter was exhausted. 

In the meantime, Sykes, hard pressed on the right, * * * required 
support, and Bartlett's Brigade of Slocum's Division was sent to his 
relief. " * * Previous to the arrival of Slocum's Division, Reynolds, 
having repulsed the enemy in his front, and hearing the tremendous 
contest on his left, had, acting under a true maxim and with the gener- 
ous spirit of the soldier, moved to the sound of cannon, and led his men, 
regiment after regiment, where our hard-pressed forces required most 
assistance. * * * As if for a final effort, just as darkness was cover- 
ing everything from view, the enemy massed his fresh regiments on 
the right and left and tlirew them with overpowering force against our 
thinned and wearied battalions. In anticipation of this, our artillery. 



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which till now liad been engaged at favorable points, * * * or held 
in reserve, was now thrown to the front to cover tlie withdrawal of our 
retiring troops. The batteries already engaged continued i)laying on 
the coming horde, while the otiiers (in all about eighty guns) success- 
ively opened as our troops withdrew from in front of their fire, and 
checked in some places and in others drove back the advancing 
masses. 

All appeared to be doing well, our troops withdrawing in order 
to the cover of their guns, the enemy retiring, and victory, so far 
as possession of the field was concerned, had already settled upon our 
banners, Avhen to my great surprise the artillery on the left was thrown 
into confusion by a charge of cavalry coming from the front. With no 
infantry to support, these and the other batteries limbered up and 
moved to the rear, some with deliberation and only after dealing 
destruction to the enemy, others in haste, but without confusion, leaving 
the battlefield with no enemy upon it. The explanation of this is that 
* * * General Cooke, doubtless misinformed, ordered it (Fifth United 
States Cavalry), as I have since learned, to charge between our infantry 
and artillery and the enemy on our left flank. * * * This charge, 
executed in the face of a withering fire of infantry, and in the midst of 
heavy cannonading, resulted, of course, in their being thrown into con- 
fusion, and the bewildered horses, regardless of the efforts of their 
riders, wheeled about and dashed through the batteries. * * * This 
convinced the gunners that they were charged bj^ the enemy. * * * 
At this juncture the cheering shouts of French and Meagher's men were 
heard advancing to our support." 

General Seymour, the only General with the division, reports July 
15th, 1863, the action of Gaines' Mill, as follows : " The several brigades 
of the division, arriving successively upon the ground selected for the 
next point of resistance near Gaines' Mill, were formed as a reserve to 
MorrelUs and Sykes' Divisions, already posted in battle order. The con- 
test here may be described briefly as a struggle for the masteiy of a 
body of woods on our front and left, the possession of which gave con- 
trol of the open ground in our rear, over which passed the roads to the 
bridges over the Chickahominy, by which wo must be supported or 
retire. Morrell's Division occui)ied these woods, Sykes' ground com- 
paratively open to the right. This division was in rear of the woods in 
reserve. Reynolds' Brigade on the right, Meade's on the left, Seymour's 
as a reserve to the division, in rear of it. Cooper's battery was on the 



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riglit. overlooking open ground towards Cold Harbor, and the batteries 
of Dellart, Easton and Kerns on the left, sweeping from commanding 
ridges the space between the woods and the Chickahominy. The cav- 
alry covered the main bridge still farther to the rear. The engagement 
commenced fiercely about 3 p. M., and such overpowering numbers 
were brought into action by the enemy, that it was soon necessary to 
send forward this division, in support of the line already engaged. 
Regiment after regiment advanced, relieved regiments in front, in turn 
Avithstood, clieeked, repelled or drove the enemy, and retired, their 
ammunition l^eing exhausted, to breathe a few moments, to fill their 
cartridge boxes, again to leturn to the contested woods. Some of these 
regiments stood for four hours, scarcely changing position, yielding to no 
odds and to no diminution of their own numbers. 

At times i^arts of the line would be driven from its ground, but only 
to receive aid and to drive the enemy in his turn. The woods were 
strewn with the heroic dead of both sides, and multitudes of wounded, 
and dying sought every hollow affording even momentary shelter from 
the incessant and pitiless fire. Through such scences, upon such ground, 
the Reserve Corps principally enacted its part. Several regiments were 
detailed from their brigades to the support of distant points ; no brigade 
went into action entire, and it is difficult to describe connectedly the 
movement of any one command. Of the First Brigade, the Second Regi- 
ment, Lieutenant-Colonel McCandless, was detached to the left in sup- 
port of General Morrell's line. The Bucktails, First, Fifth and Eighth, 
went in to relieve the left of Sykes' Division and the right of Morrell's. 
They held their ground well and steadfast, even after four hours' work 
had exhausted their ammimition. The First only was relieved, retired, 
and after some rest subsequently advanced a second time. The Eighth, 
posted in support of two batteries of Sykes' Division, was advanced to 
relieve the Second U. S. Infantrj-, where it gallantly repulsed an attack 
of the enemy. In the Second Brigade, the Third and Fourth Regiments 
were also ordered forward to supjjort the main line of battle, and the 
Foui-th relieved Warren's Zouaves, the Third the Fourth Michigan ; 
these both did manly service. The Fourth held the enemy in check for 
some time, but was compelled to fall back. The Ninth, of Seymour's 
Brigade came to its relief. It reformed and again returned to support 
the Third, still further to the left, was finally overpowered, and fell back 
in good order. Tlie Third, Colonel Sickel, was engaged for two hours, 
losing many men. The Eleventh had been ordered to relieve an 



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exhausted regiment in front, and moved into line through the woods by 
a flank upon the right of the Foxirth New Jersey, at the moment when the 
left of Sykes" Diviaion was being reUeved. The enemy, pressing strongly, 
fell upon the Eleventh, and finding it at disadvantage, surrounded it 
and compelled it to yield. The New Jersey (regiment) shared the same 
fate. 

The Third Brigade, early in the day, was ordered to the extreme 
right, to support batteries, but the attack being developed more to the 
left, the Twelfth was left in support, and the Ninth and Tenth moved to 
the rear of the woods, into which they were soon ordered. The Ninth. 
Colonel Jackson, reheved the Fourth on the right of the woods at a mo- 
ment when the enemy endeavored to advance ; joined by parts of the 
Ninth Massachusetts and Sixty Second Pennsylvania, it drove him back 
across a field in front, thereby exposing itself to a severe fire, under 
which it fell back. Reforming in the vv-oods it returned, but could not 
force the enemy, whose forces rapidly increased. Again it fell to the 
rear and again advanced with no better success. The enemy's weight 
was overpowering, but the Ninth took one of his colors from him. Ad- 
jutant Swearingin, doing his duty like a brave soldier, was here severely 
wounded. The Tenth, more employed in the support, was not so seri- 
ously engaged. 

Towai'ds evening both the right and left of the line was forced. The 
enemy came through in great mmibers, and from the edge of the woods 
poured fire upon the artillery. The batteries had already played an 
important part. They now endeavored to drive the enemy, and opened 
with rapidity and precision, but could not continue successfully against 
the bullets of the enemy at this short range. Cai^tain Easton, nobly 
encouraging and cheering lais men, shouted that they should uever have 
his gxms except over his body. This gallant gentleman fell and his bat- 
tery was lost with him. First Lieutenant WiUiam Stitt, of tliis battery, 
was severely wounded here. The horse of Lieutenant Dietrich was shot 
under him, both behaved with courage and coolness. Captain Mark 
Kerns was wounded early in the battle, but, in spite of the injury, kept 
the field, and when the enemy came down quickly upon his battery 
loaded and fired the last shots himself, and brought four of his gims off 
the field. Captain DeHart's battery did its best service. » * * Cap- 
tain DeHart was wounded here. Officers and men all displayed the 
greatest gallantry, but no efforts could repel the rush of a now success- 
ful foe, under whose fire rider and horse went down and guns lay immoTa- 



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ble upon the field. Some time here, during the confusion Incident to 
relieving regiments, etc.. General Reynolds was taken, with Captain 
Kingsbmy , his A. A. G. No greater loss befell the division on this or any- 
subsequent day. Supports came up about this time. The cavalry came 
forward, and the division fell back a few hundred yards to reform and 
to pass the night. 

Still later, in conformity to original plans, it withdrew with the rest 
of the army across the Chickahominy. * * * Major Baldy, of the 
Twelfth, behaved excellently. Adjutant McMurtrie was noted for spe- 
cial coolness and good conduct under fire." 

Colonel Taggart, commanding Twelfth Regiment, reports July 12, 
1862, as follows : "At the commencement of the battle of Gaines' Mill, 
on the 27th of June, the regiment under my command was ordered to 
support a battery of regular artillery near the centre of the field. After 
being in this position for two hours the regiment was ordered to support 
GriflSn's battery, and moved to a position on the right of the field. For 
some time the battery was not engaged. I placed my men under cover 
of a hollow slope or ravine, where we rested. During the afternoon the 
enemy's batteries obtained a good range of our position, and we were 
subject to a most galling cross fire, by which we lost several killed and 
wounded. Toward dark, when the batteries were preparing to leave, I 
moved the regiment off in tolerably good order toward the road leading 
to Woodbury's Bridge over the Chickahominy, which I crossed after 
dark, and bivouaced on the flats on the opposite side. Although not 
actively engaged, the officers and men were exposed nearly all the time to 
a heavy fire of the enemy's artillery, and under the circumstances they 
behaved with coolness and courage. * * * Casualties : five killed, 
thirteen wounded and eight missing." The battle of Gaines' Mill was 
never very clearly reported by either Union or Confederate commanders, 
and exact details cannot be given. The foregoing extracts, the writer 
believes, give a correct idea of the battle. The Twelfth Regiment having 
only acted as support to batteries, the writer of its histoiy has spared 
his strength for other battles where it was more actively engaged. 

The numbers engaged were : Union — At beginning, about 25,000 ; 
reinforcements, about 10,000. Confederate — Three grand divisions and 
one army, at least 70,000 muskets. Losses — Union, about 7,000 ; Con- 
federate, at least 9,000. 

McClellan's report of this engagement closes with the following : 
'Although we were finally forced from our first line after the enemy 



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IoslA been repeatedly driven back, yet the objects sought for had been 
obtained. The enemy was held at bay. Our siege guns and material 
-were saved, and the right vv'ing had novr joined the main body of the 
army. * * * Diedrich's, Kneirem's and GrLmm's batteries took posi- 
tion during the engagement in front of General Smith's line on the right 
l)ank of the stream ; and, vs-ith a battery of sicv;e guns, served by the 
First Connecticut Artillery, helped to drive back Ihe enemy in front of 
^General Porter (on his extreme left). So threatening were the move- 
ments of the enemy on both banks of the Ciiickahominy that it was 
impossible to decide, until the afternoon, where tlie real attack would 
he made. Large forces of infantry were seen during the day near the 
»old Tavern on Franklin's right, and threatening demonstrations were 
frequently made along the entire line on this side of the river, which 
Tendered it necessary to hold a considerable force in position to meet 
them." McCl^lan, as Commanding General, ousht to have been at 
Gaines" Mill eaaly in the day to have assisted, by his presence, the 
'OJ3icers commanding in that battle, and in order to have determined 
when reinforcements were necessary, and whether they could be spared 
f i-om the south bank. With modern weapons, the action moves faster 
than formerly ; consequently, the commanding generals of brigades, 
-divisions, corps and armies must be present in person, if possible, at the 
key or hard-fighting points. 

McClellan's report continues : ' ' Tlie operation of this day proved 
the Numerical superiority of the enemy. * * * i therefore effected a 
junction of our forces ; this probably might have been * * * 
leifected on the left bank. * * * We would have been compelled to 
fight if concentrated on that bank. Moreover, we would at once have 
been followed by the enemy's forces upon the Richmond side of the 
xiver, operating on our rear, and if * * * we had been defeated we 
-would have been forced to fall back on the White House, and probably 
on Fort Monroe. And as both our flanks and rear would then have 
been exposed, our entire supply train, if not the greater part of thearmy 
itself, might have been lost. T7/e movements of the enemy sJwwed that 
ihey expected this. * * * It may be asked why * * * I did not 
a,t once march directly on Richmond. * * * The enemy was on our 
rear, and there was every reason to believe he would sever our communi- 
cations with the White House. We had on hand but a limited supply 
of rations. * * * It would have required considerable time to carry 
thii sti'ong works arormd that place." McClellan's decision in 



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this case is supported by (he fact that General Grant, ^vith an army 
very much superior in numbers to the enemy's, being near the positiorR 
of Gaines' Mill battlefield, made no attempt to attack Richmond from 
the north side of the James ; but no doubt, reluctantly, and against the 
feelings of the military critics at Washington, after the battle of Col J 
Harbor, followed in the footsteps of McClellan and made a flank moTc- 
ment to south side of the James. Moreover, General Grant went 1o a 
point not within the enemy's line, as did McClellan, but to one held by 
a Union army. While the losses of the Confederates in fighting McClel- 
lan equalled those of McClellan's army, the losses in General Grant's 
army, fighting Lee's inferior army, were almost as great as the entire 
force opposed to him. 

General McClellan's report continues : "On the night of the 27th; 
corps commanders were assembled and instructions giv^^n in regard to- 
the flank movement to the James. 

Keyes' Corps was sent across White Oak Swamp. It had crossed 
by noon of 28th. Orders were given to the different commanders i o» 
load their wagons with ammunition and provisions and the necessary 
baggage of oflScers and men, and to destroy all property which could 
not be transported with the army. Orders were also given to leave witli 
those of the sick and wounded who could not be transported a proper 
complement of surgeons and attendants, with a bountiful supply of 
rations and medical supplies." The Confederate Surgeon-General eriti- 
cises very severely some of their officers for making improper use of 
these supplies. Twenty-five hundred beef cattle and the trains were 
started on the 28th over White Oak Swamp, and moved unmolested. Irs 
fact, this flank movement of the Army of the Potomac was not sus- 
pected by the Confederates. Their cavalry followed Stoneman toward 
Yorktown and Jackson moved toward Williamsburg, and Lee's army 
lost a whole day which it never recovered. Porter's Corps left' it^ 
camp near the south bank of the Chickahominy on the afternoon of the 
28th, followed by the artillery reserve, guarded by the Pennsylvania 
Reserve Division, which latter moved at 8 P. M. ; marching all night- 
reached the north side of the White Oak Swamp about noon on the 29th. 
then crossed the Swamp and went into the position about 5 P, M, that 
Keyes' and Porter's Corps had left. Rested here in a dry (no wat er> 
camp a short time, then resumed the march through a country desti- 
tute of drinking water. The weather being intensely hot, the sufferii^ 
of the men was terrible. 



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About dusk the division resumed its march, and after dark came to 
the position of New Market Cross Roads. Here a small stream of fairly 
good water was found. While enjoying this refreshing water httle did 
they dream that within twenty- four hours it would run red with their 
blood. During the evening the division was moved about. It was 
moved out the New Market Road and then back to the open ground 
where it had rested, the men from fatigue and heat falling down and 
going to sleep the instant a halt was made. 

" On the morning of the 28th, while General Franklin was with- 
drawing his command from Golding's Farm, the enemy ojiened 
(with artillery) upon General Smith's Divison from Garnett's Hill 
from the valley above, and from Gaines' Hill on the oppo- 
site side of the Chickahominy, and shortly afterwards two Georgia 
regiments attempted to carry the works about to be vacated, but this 
attack was repulsed by the Thirty-Third New York and Forty-Ninth 
Pennsylvania on picket and a section of Mott's battery. * * * Dur- 
ing the night of the 28th the Corps of Sumner and Heintzelman and 
Smith's Division were ordered to an interior line, the left resting on 
Keyes' old entrenchments, and curving to the right so as to cover 
Savage Station. Slocum's Division was ordered to Savage Station in. 
reserve. This force was ordered to hold their position until dark of the 
29th, in order to cover the withdrawal of the trains, and then to fall 
back across the White Oak Swamp and imite with the remainder of the 
army." 

BATTLE OF ALLEN'S FARM, 29th JUNE. 

" General Sumner vacated his earth works at Fair Oaks Jime 29th 
at dayhght, and marched his command to Orchard Station, halting at 
Allen's Field, between Orchard and Savage Stations. The Divisions of 
Richardson and Sedgwick were formed ou the right of the railroad 
facing towards Richmond, Richardson holding the right and Sedgwick 
joining the right of Heintzelman's Corps. The first lice of Richardson's 
Division was held by General French, General Caldwell supporting in 
the second. A log building in front of Richardson's Division was held 
by Colonel Brooke with one regiment (Fifty-Third Pennsylvania) with 
Ilazzard's battery on an elevated piece of ground, a little in rear of 
Brooke's command. At 9 A. M. the enemy commenced a furious attack 
on the right of Sedgwick, but were repulsed. The left of General 
Richardson was next attacked, the enemy attempting in vain to carry 
the position of Geneial Biooke. Captain Hazzard's battery and P ji'.Vs. 



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battery, which afterwards replaced it, were served with great effect, 
while the Fifty -Third Pennsylvania kept up a steady fire on the advanc- 
ing enemy, compelling them at last to retire in disorder. The enemy 
renewed the attack three times, but were as often repulsed. Slocum 
was moved eaiiy on the 29th across White Oak Swamp, and relieved 
Keyes, who moved on towards the James Eiver." 

BATTLE OF SAVAGE STATION, 29th JUNE. 

During the morning of the 29th General Franklin, hearing that the 
enemy had repaired the bridges ovtr the Cliickahominy, and was mov- 
ing toward Savage Station, sent this information to General Sumner and 
moved Smith's Division to the Station. "A little after noon General 
Sumner united his forces with those of General Franklin and assumed 
coramand. General Heintzelman with Lis corps had been ordered to 
hold the Williamsburg road until dark at a point where there were sev- 
eral field works and a skirt cf timber between these works and the rail- 
road, but he fell back before niaht and crossed the White Oak Swamp at 
Brackett's Ford." 

On reaching Savage Station, Sumner and Franklin's commands 
were drawn up in line of battle in the large field to the left of the ruil- 
road, the left resting on the edge of the woods and the right extending 
down the railroad. General Brooke with liis brigade held the woods to 
the left of the field, where he did excellent service,, receiving a wound 
but retaining his command. General Hancock's Brigade was thrown 
into the woods on the right and front. At 4 P. Bl. the enemy commenced 
his attack in large force by the Williamsburg Road. It was gallantly 
met by General Burns' Brigade, supported and reinforced by two lines 
in reserve, and finally by the Sixty-Ninth New York. Hazzard's and 
Petit's batteries again doing good service. Osborne's and Bromball's 
batteries also took part effectively in tliis action, which was continued 
with great obstinacy untU between 8 and 9 P. M., when the enemy 
were driven from the field. By midnight all the troops were en the 
road to White Oak Swamp Bridge, General French's Brigade acting as 
rear guard, and at 5 A. M. on 30th all had crossed and the bridge was 
destroyid. 



CHAPTER VII. 



BATTLE OF NEW MARKET CROSS ROADS, 
or Glendale, Charles City Cross Roads, Nelson's Farm, Frazier's Farm, 
(all of these names have been given to the battle fought near New 
Market Cross Roads) June 30th, 18G2. 

Description of the battlefield of New Market Cross Roads : Starting 
from the junction of the New Market and Charles City Cross Roads, the 
New Market Road makes a bend to the southwest and then turns north- 
west ; at about five hundred yards from the cross roads it turns almost 
at right angles to the last direction and runs southwest, continues this 
direction about a thousand yards, and then turning nearly west contin- 
ues tbis direction about five hundred yards, when it turns southerly and 
leads off towards Richmond and the James River, Just at the last 
turn mentioned a branch road leads off northwestward. At the turn 
before the last above mentioned, a country road leads southeastward 
toward the Charles City (Quaker) Road, which latter it inter- 
sects just north of the Willis Methodist Church. Starting from 
the New Market and Charles City Cross Roads, the Charles City 
road leads almost northwest towards White Oak Swamp in one 
direction, and almost south towards the James River at Malvern Hill 
in the other. 

The New Market Road east of the Cross Roads rims a little north of 
east ; this part of this road is called the Long Bridge Road. 1 he road 
from While Oak Swamp, over which the greater part of the Army of 
the Potomac (all but Heintzelman's Corps) passed, after leaving the 
bridge over the swamp, runs a little west of south till it intersects the 
Long Bridge Road, which latter road the army followed to the New 
Market and Charles City Cross Roads. (Reference should be made to the 
map to understand fully the region under consideration.) 

The wb.ole country south cf White Oak Swamp and within several 
miles of the New L'arket and Charles City Cross Roads is wooded, trav- 
ersed by small streams with swampy banks, the streams rimning north- 
east to White Oak Swamp or southerly to the James River. The only 
openings in the woods are occasional farms. These are somewhat con- 
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abouts that this general ' ' clearing " or settlement has been named ' ' Glen- 
dale." There is a " Frazier " farm near White Oak Swamp, a lit le south 
of the bridge over which the greater party of the Army of the Potomac 
crossed, and, judging from the Confederate reports, there must be a 
Frazier farm about two miles west of the cross roads. Nelson's farm is 
a little south of the cross roads. There is a clearing on the Quaker Road 
beginning two to three hundred yards south of the cross roads and ex- 
tending about 500 yards westwardly from the road and half a mile south- 
erly along the road, also extending east of the road 200 to 300 yards. 

At the third bend of the New Market Road (west of the cross roads), 
where this road takes its west course, there is a series of fields extending 
north and south of this east and west course of the road. Where the 
road crosses them they are between 400 and 500 yards wide ; to the south 
of the road the opening extends 400 to 500 yards ; to the north of the road 
these openings extend half a mile or more, becoming wider in an east 
and west direction as they extend toward the north. A small stream, 
with swampy wooded shores, rises in a dense wood to the west of this 
open ground, crosses the New Market Road just west of this opening, 
then runs easterly 400 or 500 yards, where it joins a small branch coming 
from the north ; the stream thus formed flows south and soon becomes 
an impassable swamp. 

In passing towards the James River, early on the morning of June 
80th, General McClellan notified Generals Sumner and Heintzelman that 
he wished them to cover the New Market and Charles City Cross Roads, 
from the northwest and west, until the army trains had passed that 
point. He seems to have given only general directions to this effect, 
leaving these corps commanders to use their discretion as to how it 
should be done. It will be noted, in this connection, tliat these were the 
senior corps commanders of the Army of the Potomac, corps com- 
manders who had been appointed to command by the President's 
famous corps order. McClellan was compelled to use great caution in 
giving <hem orders, lest there might be a conflict of authority ; also, it 
.should be further noted, that a very serious misunderstanding had taken 
place, the day before, between Sumner and Heintzelman, the former 
accusing the latter of deserting him. 

Some time during the night of tlie 29tli Porter's Corps had rested near 
these cross roads. Porter had gone out towards Richmond on the New 
Market Road in the afternoon of the 29ili to look over the ground for the 
purpose of arranging his command, the Fifth Corps and Pennsylvania 



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Heserve Division, for its defence, until other troops then in the rear should 
come up to relieve him. Upon the arrival of the advance, Heintzel- 
maa's Corps, Porter moved his own corps proper, Morreil's and Sykes' 
<Jivifiions, on toward the James River. About 4 P. M. on 29th, the writer 
<beinga staff officer of Colonel Hunt, commanding the artillery reserve of 
the Army of the Potomac), reported to General Porter on the New Mar- 
ket Road, in the fields near the point where this road takes its course 
■west%vard, with the German batteries of Diedrich and Knieriem. Lieu- 
tenant Randall, with his battery from the same force, reported about the 
jBame time. He was directed to report to General McCall. It is well 
Imown that General Porter failed to order McCall, who was attached to 
bis corps, to follow his other divisions toward the James. He also faUed 
to give these German batteries any orders. 

The troops that took part in this battle and their positions at the 
beginning, as near as can be learned, were as follows : The bridge over 
which the greater part of the Union army passed White Oak Swamp was 
^destroyed about 10 a. m. The troops posted there to defend this crossing, 
under the general command of General Franklin, were, at this time, 
Richardson's Division of Sumner's Corps and Neglee's Brigade of Peck's 
Division of Keyes' Corps to the left of the road facing north, Smith's 
Division of Franklin's Corps to the right of the road. These forces were 
afterwards, between 2 and 6 P. M., reinforced by Dana's and Sully's 
brigades of Sumner's Corps. There was only artillery firing and skir- 
mishing at this point during the battle. Slocum's Division of Franklin's 
Corps was posted early in the day to the right of Charles City Road, its 
left resting on that road, its line facing nearly north towards White Oak 
Swamp; only artillery firing and infantry skirmishing along Slocuni's 
front during the battle. 

To the left of Slocum, with his right resting on or near the Charles 
City Road (at a point two miles from the cross roads), and his left near 
the New Market Road, extended Kearney's Division of Heintzelman's 
Corps The Second Brigade, Birney's, on the right, extendmg over a 
spa^e nearly two miles long from the Charles City Road to Robinson's 
Brigade, posted on Birney's left. There was only artillery firing and 
infantrv skirmishing on Birney's front during the battle. During the 
day the' Fifth Michigan, of Berry's Brigade, was sent to Birney's sup- 
port Robinson's (First) Brigade, of Kearney's Division, rested its left 
near the New Market Road, near the point where this road makes its 
Tight an-le bend t.> the southwest, five or six hundred yards from tW 



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cross roads. Thompsch's battery "H,"' Fiist United States Artillery-, 
was posted on its left ; Twentieth Indiana on tlie right, in a hastily- 
made breastwork, Fifty-Seventh Pennsylvania in the centre, Sixty- 
Third Pennsylvania on the left. One Hundred and Fifth Pennsylvania in 
reserve. Robinson's Brigade was supported at different times dming 
the action by regiments from Berry's, Birney'sand Caldwell's Brigaiies, 
and late at night by Taylor's Brigade. 

To the left and front of Kearney's Division, across the New Maiket 
Road, 1,200 to 1,500 yards from the cross roads, was posted McCall's 
Division as follows : On the right, Randol's battery, six Hght twelve- 
pounders, about 300 yards from the New Market Road ; immediately to 
the right of the Road was posted Kerns' battery " G,", First Pennsyl- 
vania Artillery, four ten-pounder rifles, under command of Lieutenant 
Amsden (Captain Kerns was wounded at Gaines Mill) ; immediately to 
the left of the New Market Road was posted Cooper's battery "B," 
'First Pennsylvania Artillery (six ten-pounder parrots) ; about 300 yards 
to the left of the road were posted Diedrich's and Knieriem's German 
batteries (eight twenty -pounder rifles); extending in a line of battle behind 
and nearly parallel to the line of batteries were the Second and Third 
Brigades of Pennsylvania Reserves; in rear of these was posted the First 
Brigade in reserve. General M( ade commanding the Second Brigade.. 
Colonel Simmons, of the Fifth, the First Brigade, and General Seymour 
the Third Brigade. The regiments of the Second Brigade were posted 
as follows : The Fourth on the right ; the Seventh, with remnant of the 
Eleventh, on left of Fourth ; the First, Colonel Roberts, on skirmish line. 
The regiments of the Third Brigade ; Ninth on the right, Tenth on its left. 
Twelfth on left of Tenth and forming the left of the Division (Sixth Regi- 
ment absent). The regiments of First Brigade : First Rifles (five com- 
panies) on the right, Second on left of Rifles, Fifth on left of Second, 
Eighth on left of the Brigade, Third (Col. Sickel) on skirmish. Fourth 
Pennsylvania Cavalry, Colonel Childs, to the left rear of McCall's 
Division. 

Five hundred to 600 yards to the left rear of McCall's Division was; 
posted the right of Hooker's Division of Heintzelman's Corps, its rights 
(Grover's Brigade) resting on the country road which leads from t!i& 
New Market Road to Quaker Road. The regiments of his right brigade 
(Grover's) posted as follows : Sixteenth Massachusetts on the right, its 
right on the country road, its line extending perpendicularly to the left 
from this road; Twenty-sixtli Indiana on line with and to left of Six- 



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teenth Massachusetts; Eleventh Massachusetts sent to extreme left of 
(division) line; First Massachusetts on the right, Second New Hamp- 
shire on its left, both in reserve to Sixteenth Massachusetts and Twenty- 
Sixth Indiana. Sickles' Brigade of Hooker's Division was extended iu 
line on the left of Grover's Brigade. Carr's Brigade of Hooker's Divi- 
sion held in reserve. All artillery of Hooker's Division was sent to 
James River before the battle. 

Sedgwick's Division of Sumner's Corps was posted in the morning 
on the Quaker Road, about half way between the cross roads and Willis 
Church, in the opening heretofore described. In the action of the 
afternoon " Kirby's battery was placed upon a knoll on the left of the 
division and west of the road." "Tomkins' battery on a knoll on the 
west of the road, and in rear of the centre of the division, his caisson* 
were placed on the east side of the road, the fence being leveled 
between them and the guns" (Quaker Road supposed to be meant). 
Kirby says : "Toward night was placed in position in rear of our troops 
* * * Enemy did not approach within 500 yards of my position." 

The Confederate general, Longstreet, in command of his own and 
A. P. Hill's Division, had brought up these divisions to a point about 
tliree miles west of New lilarket and Charles City Cross Roads on the 
evening of June 29, Longstreet's Division leading. 

During the morning of the 30th he sent out Jenkins' Brigade to find 
out the position of the Union troops. This duty Jenkins evidently did 
very well. Longstreet says : " My own division was put in position for 
attack or defence at once. Ordered forward Branch's Brigade of Hill's 
Division to support my right flank, the rest of Hill's Division being left 
for the time on the road to secure the right or to move up to support the 
front." 

It will be seen (especially by examining the map) that there was a 
dangerous interval between McCall's left and Hooker's right, also that 
there was not a good connection between McCall's right and Kearney's 
left. These two weak points on the general line of defence of the cross 
roads were the cause of all the trouble on the Union side during the 
action, and of the unhappy controversy which began about 4 P. M,, June 
30, 1862, and which remains still unsettled. This matter wiU be further 
discussed after the description of the movements of the troops on both 
sides. It was not the intention of the Uruon Commander to take the 
offensive at this point, although General Longstreet seems to have 
apprehended something of the kind. Longstreet waited until he heard 



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General Huger's guns, on the Charles Ciiy Road, open before he started 
his attack. He first threw forward Jenkins' (R. H. Anderson's) Brigade 
to skirmish and reach up to the Union line of battle. Tlie skirmishers 
of this brigade no doubt reached up to the west side of the open ground 
in front of McCall's and Kearney's divisions, and from their reports 
Longstreet gave his instructions for the attack. He probably learned of 
the irregular connection of Kearney's left and McCall's riglit, also that 
McCall's left " was in the air." Also that dense woods reached close to 
McCall's left, whilst a large open field extended in front of McCall's 
right. 

His first attack was arranged with Kemper's Brigade on lus right 
of the New Market Road, Jenkins' Brigade "straddling" the road, and 
Picket's Brigade on Jenkins' left, a large part of Jenkins' Brigade acting 
as skirmishers to the whole line. About 4 P. M. Longstreet says he 
started his infantry attack. Before, for an hour or more, whilst 
Jenkins was skirmisliing forward, he caused his batteries to oj^en upon 
McCall's line, to which he says McCall's batteries " replied viciously." 
To meet this first attack of Longstreet it wUl be well to see what McCall, 
who is to bear the brunt of it, has done. McCall says : " He had a 
heautiful battlefield," which means, of course, that he was satisfied 
with it ; "but it was too extensive for his force (of say 5,600)." 

In the first place, it is evident from the actions of himself, Meade 
and Seymour that they expected the attack to begin on their right, and 
probably to be principally from that direction during the day. The 
enemy was coming generally from that direction. His artillery began 
firing first in that direction, and firing was heavy all the morning in 
the direction of White Oak Swamp. McCall, Meade and Seymour all 
vrent over to the right of the division line of battle and arranged with 
General Kearney for a connection between the divisions. But all 
seemed to have overlooked the danger on McCall's left, except that 
McCall ordered his left regiments refused, until late in the day (too late 
to save the left). When Seymour began making some effort at strength- 
ening the left, this effort was evidently made with the expectation 
that there would be ample time after the battle opened on the right to 
complete it. It so happened it was a misfortune that Seymour made 
this attempt, for by it he detached a part of his command just as the 
enemy's assault reached his front. 

The position of Thompson's battery was changed several times, and 
finally, as he says, it was echeloned forwai-d on its left piece in order to 



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reach the enemy. It is believed, from the conformation of the ground 
and the Confederate reports, that all the Confederate attacks, except 
Featherstone's and Gregg's, against Robinson's front were made in an 
oblique direction coming from Robinson's left front, a very advantageous 
position for his brigade, the enemy having to pass diagonally across 
McCall's right in order to reach Robinson's Brigade. 

McCall placed his Third Brigade with its left refused, the Tenth and 
Twelfth Regiments facing southwest, but the German batteries facing 

"west. 

General Seymour took six companies of the Twelfth Regiment and 
advanced to the Whitlock House, two to three hundred yards to his left 
front, and the men of these companies were in the midst of forming a 
barricade when Kemper's Brigade, driving the Union skirmishers before 
it, burst upon them. The other four companies of the Twelfth Regi- 
ment were in rear of the German batteries to support them. Early in 
the afternoon McCall had sent the First Regiment, Colonel Roberts, to 
picket the New Market Road and the ground to the right of it, and the 
Third Regiment, Colonel Sickel, to picket to the left of this road, 
Roberts appears to have seen Kemper's advance, and felt Jenkins' skir- 
mishers, and very judiciously called in his regiment and joined the 
Second Brigade. 

On the left of the road Sickel's men, who were holding the east side 
of the Hobson opening, checked Jenkins' skirmishers, and made such 
resistance to Kemper's advance in line that Kemper's men, as he 
<Kemper) says, thought they had the Union line of battle in their front, 
and the brigade charged the skirmish line, of course driving it in. The 
Union skirmishers were forced back by such overwhelming numbers, 
and passed through the interval between McCall and Hooker, and some 
over on General Sickles' Brigade. 

Kemper, commanding Longstreet's First Brigade, describes his, the 
first attack of the Confederates, as follows : " Formed brigade on right 
And nearly perpendicular to the road "—New Market Road— " leading 
through Frazier's Farm, one regiment of the Second Brigade (Jenkins') 
between my right and the road. Seventeenth Virginia occupying the 
j-ight, Twenty-Fourth Virginia the left, First Virginia the centre, 
Eleventh Virginia right centre, Seventh Virginia left centre. Posted 
Rogers' four gims on eminence near my right, and threw back right 
regiment. At 5 P. M. advanced right regiment to front line and 
advanced brigade, being the extreme right of general line of battle. 



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* * * The advance continued to be conducted in" good order 
until, very soon coming upon the pickets of the enemy and driving 
them in, the men seemed to be possessed of the idea that they were 
upon tlie enemy's main Hiie, and in an instant the whole brijrade 
charged forward in double-quick time, and with loud cheers ; the cheer- 
ing of the men only stemed to direct the fire of the enemy's batteries, 
and the movement in double-quick time through dense woods crossed 
by a swamp produced more or less confusion ; * * * but a single 
idea controlled the minds of the men, which was to reach the enemy's, 
line by the directest route and in the shortest time, and no eartlJy 
power could have availed to arrest or restrain the impetuosity with 
which they rushed toward the foe. * * » 

After advancing some twelve hundred yards across two fields and 
some woods, the line suddenly emerged into another field, facing a bat- 
tery of the enemy, consisting of not less than eight pieces, distant but a 
few hundred yards, while the enemy's infantry were formed, protected 
by an imperfect and hastily-constructed breastwork and a house near 
by ; another battery of the enemy considerably to our left. These twa 
batteries and the enemy's infantry poured an incessant fire of shell, 
grape, canister and lead upon my lines, and did much execution, 

* * * When the command came upon the enemy's batteries there 
was no perceptible faltering in the advance of these brave men, who 
rushed across the open field, pouring a well-directed fire into the enemy, 
driving him from his brea&tworks and the battery in our front. The 
guns of the battery were abandoned to us for the time being, and my 

command was in virtual possession of the chosen position of the enemy. 

* * * 

Tlie left of my line was entirely unsupported. * * * i had 
supposed that the movement of my brigade was part of a general 
advance of our entire lines ; up to this time no firing was heard upon 
my left, except the firing of the enemy. * * * At the time when, 
my command had obtained virtual possession of the enemy's position, 
no Confederate troops were anywhere visible except my own. It now 
became evident that the position sought to be held by my command wa& 
wholly mitenable by them imless largely and immediately reinforced. 
The inferior numbers, which had alarmed the enemy and driven him 
from his breastworks and batteries, soon became apparent to him, and 
he at once proceeded to make use of his advantage. Wliile greatly 
superior numbers hung upon our front, considerable bodies of the enemy 



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were thrown upon both flanks of my command, which was now in immi- 
nent danger of being captured or wholly destroyed. Already they were 
capturing officers and men at different points of my line. * * * No 
reinforcements appearing, * * * the necessity of withdrawing was 
submitted to. * * * Soon after my command was ovei-powered, 
and, before all of it had fallen back, General Branch's Brigade was 
found coming up, and General Branch was shown by me into the posi- 
tion which my gallant men had vainly sought to hold, * » * and 
immediately afterwards the Third Brigade, Hunton commanding, took 
position on Branch's right." 

It is evident that Kemper's Brigade began the battle ; its move- 
ments, as described by Kemper, showed that its left carried the breast- 
works which the six companies of the Twelfth Regiment were 
constructing. These companies of the Twelfth Regiment were in no 
shape to meet such a sudden assault. Some of the men had laid down 
their guns to collect rails and such like articles to construct the breast- 
work. It is evident that neither General Seymour nor any other Union 
commanding officer expected this sudden and overwhelming assault at 
this point at this time. The men were not only in the described 
tmready condition to meet it, but the batteries in their rear could not 
open on the enemy until the men of the Twelfth Regiment got back 
from in front of the batteries. 

Moreover, the Union skirmishers came running in ahead of tliis 
attacking force. This attack was to all intents and purposes, so far as 
the Twelfth Regiment was concerned, a surprise, for which its com- 
manding officers should be held responsible. Tliis successful assault 
of Kemper's Brigade carried the officers and men of these six companies 
(except those killed, wounded or captured) of the Twelfth Regiment, and 
probably the colonel commanding the regiment and the general com- 
manding the Third Brigade, the caissons of the German batteries, also 
many non-combatants, as well as some of the skirmishers of the Third 
Regiment, back past the right of Hooker's Division and toward the open 
ground on General Sumner's front. As there were no Union troops to 
stop the centre and right of Kemper's Brigade on the left of SlcCall 
(tliere being an interval of 500 to 600 yards between him and Hooker), 
these Confederates pushed on until they struck the front of Grover's 
Brigade and Sixty-Ninth Pennsylvania, Colonel Owen, of Sedgwick's 
Division, on right of Hookers Division, and the fire of Sumner's 
Latleries, to right rear of Hooker's Division. Hooker, Grover, Sumner, 



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and other commanding generals stationed in the left rear of McCall's 
Division, seeing such numbers and such a variety of fugitives, were 
somewhat justified, at the first impulse, in thinking McCalFs entire 
division had been overwhelmed. 

But, as Kemper states, such was by no means the case, for almost 
immediately after Kemper's men ran through McCall's unprepared left, 
McCall organized an attack on Kemper's left rear (it is believed the 
greater part of Jenkins' Brigade, as skirmishers advanced with 
Kemper). This counter attack of McCall's consisted of the Ninth 
Regiment, Colonel Jackson ; Tenth, Colonel Kirk, in front line, supported 
by the Fifth, Lieutenant-Colonel Fisher, and Eighth, Colonel Hays, in 
second line, all commanded by Colonel Simmons, of Fifth. This force 
advanced to the Union left of the New Market Road, and at first drove 
back the enemy's rear, being part of Kemper's and Jenkins' Brigades, 
capturing many prisoners and several flags. Whilst thus engaged with 
Kemper's and Jenkins' men, Branch's Brigade of A. P. Hill's Division, 
advancing to cover Kemper's right (having been detached for such 
purpose from Hill's* Division), is led in, as heretofore mentioned by 
Kemper, and struck these Union regiments whilst they were in the 
disarray of a successftil advance. The reserve regiments were com- 
pelled to retire with their prisoners (of course losing some). As they fell 
back to the open ground their losses became so heavy they retreated in 
some confusion toward the position from whence they had started. The 
wounded men, who could walk, of these charging regiments, and other 
men escorting prisoners, passed to the rear, to the right of Hooker's 
Division, thus giving a second alarm to the generals commanding in 
rear, and a second report that McCall's Division had been overwhelmed. 

The Union batteries could give Simmons' men no assistance till 
they had recrossed the field in front of the batteries, but General 
McCall, hearing the renewed firing in the woods in his left front, and 
foreseeing the danger to Colonel Simmons' command, hastily moved the 
First Rifles, Major Stone, and the Second Regiment. Lieutenant-Colonel 
McCandless, forward to the edge of the woods beyond the open ground, 
on his left of the road. These two regiments laid down and allowed 
Simmons' command to retreat over them. As soon as their friends had 
passed, Stone's and McCandless' men opened fire on the enemy and 
repulsed him. 

There being nothing on their right to oppose them, this part of 
Branch's Brigade advanced down the country road till it met Hooker's. 



right, but the left of Branch's Brigade fell back in confusion through 
Picket's (Third) Brigade, which was now advancing over the same 
ground which Kemper's, part of Jenkins' and Branch's Brigades had 
akeady passed over. A portion of Picket's men moved on towards- 
Hooker's right and Sumner's front, another part attacked the batteries 
on the Union left of the road, and probably caused the German drivers 
and cannoneers, with two of their guns, to move hastily to the rear, 
and the four companies of the Twelfth Regiment supporting these 
guns to retreat (the men of these companies accused the drivers 
<f the German batteries of running them down), partly toward 
the rear and partly toward the part of McCall's Division which 
remained intact. 

The woods on the Confederate side of the battlefield, in front of 
McCall, was, at this time, filled with men from the Confederate brigades;, 
which had already advanced, and infantry firing from this woods was- 
severe. As Picket's advance was made along on either side of the road,. 
Prior's Brigade of Longstreet's Division, advancing, as Prior Bays, one 
regiment at a time, to the left (Confederate left) of the road, assaulted 
the right of McCall's Division and Robinson's Brigade of Kearney's 
Division. This was probably between 5 and 6 P. M., and thus, about this 
hour, severe fighting: extended throughout Robinson's and McCall's front 
and desultory fighting on right of Hooker's Division. Robinson's Brigade 
not only repulsed all attacks on his front at this time, but some of his 
men followed the enemy back to his side of the field and held a portion 
of his woods until the next advance of the Confederates. 

This first general attack by Longstreet's Division, assisted hy 
Branch's Brigade of Hills Division, although persistent and courage- 
ously conducted, not being made connectedly from right to left, was 
successful only in carrying the German batteries and in breaking 
McCall's extreme left and alarming Hooker, Burns and some other 
officers in the rear. 

Having thus, at 6 P. M., failed to carry either McCall's or 
Kearney's main line, Longstreet starts his second and better ordered 
advance. Wilcox's Brigade on the right, part of Prior's in the centre 
and Featherstone's on the left. The whole line was posted to the (Con- 
federate) left of the road at the beginning of the advance. "Wilcox's 
report says : " He was ordered first to touch to right (Picket), then to 
left (Prior), and finally to go straight aliead; was guided in the woods by 
the artillery fire of the enemy; soon found the two regiments on right 



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and two on left of Long Bridge (New Market) road; crossed a boggy 
stream on right of wood under artillery fire; woods very dense; came to 
a field on the left of the read; the enemy's infantiy in the woods on the 
left of this field. He opened a brisk and close fire upon the left regi- 
ment of my line (Eighth Alabama); it halted and began firing. 

In this fifld, about 300 yards to the front and 100 yards to the left 
of the road was a house, and beyond the house about 200 yards more 
was a six-gun battery of the enemy; the battery had an open field of 
fire, the ground in front being perfectly level; the Eighth Alabama 
being engaged with the enemy, the Eleventh Alabama, the regiment 
next to it, continued to advance and, entering upon the open field, came 
within full view of the six-gun battery on this side (the left) of the road. 
This battery began at once a rapid discharge of grape and canister upon 
this regiment; it did not halt an instant, but continued to advance 
steadily and rapidly and without firing imtil it approached wdthin 200 
yards of the battery, when it gave loud cheers and made a rush for the 
guns ; halting for an instant in front of it, they fire upon the battery 
and infantry immediately in rear of it, and then make a successful 
charge upon and take the battery. The enemy's infantry are in the 
woods in heavy force beyond, and 200 yards distant, and in the woods 
skii'ting the field to the left of the battery, and not so far, and here in 
like manner in strong force. The enemy have a direct and flank fire 
upon this regiment now at the battery. 

The two regiments on the right of the road continued steadily to 
advance through the woods which extended along the road side to 
within one hundred j'ards of the second six-gun battery, this battery 
being nearly opposite to the one on the left of the road and some 
two hundred yards from it. Halting for a few minutes in the woods 
fronting this battery, to deliver their fire, these regiments. Ninth and 
Tenth Alabama, charge upon and take this also, the enemy's infantry 
supports being driven back. Both these batteries were now in our 
possession. * « * The taking of the battery on the right of the road 
was not attended by such a bloody strife as followed the assault and 
capture of the one on the left, for here the enemy had not the heavy 
pine forests so close in rear and on one flank in which he could retiie, 
reform and renew the conflict with renewed numbers. On the contrary, 
the pine was in our possession and our men, under cover of it, Avere 
within one hundred yards of and in front of the battery, the field 
extending far off to our right and the timber in rear of the batt^ ry 



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beiug more distant. Other brigades, too, (portions of Kemper's, 
Branch's, Picket's and Jenkins') were on our right engaging the enemy, 
3)ut none on our left and near the batteries. The battery on the left of 
the road was the first taken. The Eleventh Alaliama had experienced 
severe loss in crossing the open field while advancing agaiubt this 
battery. Here the enemy, at first repulsed and driven from the battery, 
retire to the woods both on our left and in the rear of the battery, and 
with superior numbers, deliver a terrible and destructive fire upon this 
regiment. * *, * The latter" (the Fourth and Seventh Reserves) "see- 
ing this regiment isolated and unsupported, now advanced from their cover 
against it. Our men do not flee from their prize, so nobly and so 
bravely won, overwhelmed by superior numbei's, but, with a determin- 
ation and a courage unsurpassed, they stubbornly hold their ground, 
men and officers alike engaging in the most desperate personal conflicts 
with the enemy ; the sword and bayonet are freely used. * * * No 
reinforcements come, and they are at length forced to yield and retire 
to the pine woods on the right of the road, and in rear some 150 to 200 
yards, the enemy not pursuing. * * * The Eleventh Alabama 
retu-ed, as above stated, to the right of the road in the jjine woods and 
t ere, together with the Kinth and Tenth Alabama, remained." (The 
Ninth and Tenth Alabama had also been compelled to relinquish posses- 
sion of the battery. Cooper's, on the right of the road by the Ninth 
Reserves.) " From this position the battery on the right of the road was 
in full view and not more than 100 yards distant. The enemy made no 
■effort to retake (re-ho]d) this battery, though their infantry continued 
to fire at long range upon our men in the woods. The Eighth Alabama 
joined Prior's and Featherstone's brigades. » * * It was now sunset, 
* * * the brigade was withdrawn." Prior says : "Ordered in at 4 
p. M., but the woods and other obstructions forced me to form columns 
and to send in my regiments successively. * * * Arriving on the 
field, discovered that the brigade (Wilcox's) on my right had been 
repulsed, and that my brigade was exposed to a destructive fire on my 
flank as well as in front. Stood their ground until reheved by Gregg's 
Brigade. * * * In this engagement my loss was enormously 
heavy." Featherstone says : " Brigade was held in reserve at first, but 
about 5 P. M. ordered to attack on left of Long&treet, left of Prior ; 
was afraid of my left ; advanced to the front lines to or near a fence 
at the edge of the field ; here opened on the enemy, and the enemy 
poured a well directed fire into our ranks and seemed not to be giving 



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way but inclined to advance ; ♦ * * feared a charge, was wounded, 
but was being relieved by Gregg." 

To resist this magnificent assault of the remainder of Longstreet's- 
Division McCall had only his crippled division, which at this time had 
already received its principal losses of the day. 

The recapture of Cooper's and Randol's batteries after the terrible 
losses the Reserve Division had received, was an instance of heroism not 
often repeated during the war. 

As at this time the Reserves had fired almost their last cartridges, 
these batteries were retaken principally with the bayonet, the only 
recorded instance of the kind during the war. McCall justly grows 
more eloquent than Wilcox over the struggle for Randol's Battery. To 
meet this assault on Robinson's front Kearney sends the One Himdred 
and Fifth Pennsylvania to the front line, the First New York to sup- 
port Thompson's Batteiy, Second Michigan to the front Une in the 
Twentieth Indiana's breastworks, and the Third Michigan to Birney's 
left. These reinforcements to Robinsons front line gave it such a vol- 
ume of fire as to enable it to repulse Prior's and Featherstone's brigades. 

General Kearney's report says : " There was now (7:30 P. M.) a luU 
in the fighting, the enemy being (having) failed on the New Market 
Road, he expected an attack on the Charles City Road, and went there; 
was gone forty minutes." 

An exciting state of affairs took place in Kearney's absence. Long- 
street now (just at dusk) threw in the whole of A, P. HilFs Division, 
with Field's Brigade on his right. The Fifty-Fifth and Sixtieth Virginias 
of this brigade on (Confederate) right of the road, and Fortieth and 
Forty-Seventh Virginia of this brigade on the left of the road. Pender's 
Brigade followed Field's, Gregg's supporting Featherstone's on the Con- 
federate left, Archer's Brigade going to the right, and Anderson's com- 
ing on as a final reserve. Five of the strongest brigades of the best 
troops, and the very ablest Confederate generals to lead them. 

What has the Union front line to oppose to this torrent of valor ? 

McCall's Division, disorganized by its terrible losses, all its batteries 
disabled and short of ammunition, (Kern's withdrawn, its caissons 
having by mistake gone on with Fifth Corps, it had none), but its line 
still bravely held by a handful of infantry with scarcely a round of 
ammunition to a man. But one says, Kearney's Division line is still 
complete. If Kearney had been there it would have been, but the 
instant he left to examine the right of his line Thompson, thinking 



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more of the safety of liis guns than of his diTision line of battle, hastily 
withdraws his battery, so hastily as to leave one gun behind, and sad to- 
say of a division chief of artillery, he sent no guns to take his place^ 
Almost fatal interval. Lieutenant Jastram hurries two gun& into 
Thompson's position, but only in time to lose one of them. Kearney's 
line can only be reinforced by the Thirty-Seventh New York and Fifth 
Michigan. 

However, there is a reserve to this front line which may well give 
a homely but striking sobriquet to a noble old soldier. ' ' Bull " Sum- 
ner is at the Cross Roads. 

It will be remembered that the infantry of Sedgwick's Division of 
Sumner's Corps had early in the day marched up to and beyond the 
Cross Roads, stopping on the Quaker Road about half way from the 
Cross Roads to Willis Church. About 2 p. m., upon call for assistance 
from Frankhn, Sumner, always ready to help a fight, sent off Sully's 
and Dana's brigades to Franklin at White Oak Swamp Crossing. The 
understanding between Sumner and Heintzelman evidently was that 
Heintzelman should post his corps across the the New Market and 
Charles City Roads and Sumner would support him, wherefore Sumner 
took no part in posting the troops to cover the roads toward Richmond. 
Sumner was to hold the cross roads, and help either Franklin or Heint- 
zelman, or both, as might become necessary. Thus, when the fight 
opens in front of McCall, Sumner has only Burns' Brigade with him.. 
His batteries, except one, appear to have remained with Franklin till 
sent for late in the day. Hooker, in looking to his right, having found 
the long interval between himself and McCall, instead of moving to his. 
right and connecting with McCall, extends his division way off to the 
left, and permits his batteries to go off to James River. But he calls on 
Sumner to weaken still more his meagre reserve by asking for the 
Sixty-Ninth Pennsylvania, of Burns' Brigade, to be put on his right. 
Sumner gives Hooker the Sixty-Ninth Pennsylvania rather than have it 
said he refused a reinforcement. Thus, it will be seen, Burns has only 
the Seventy- First, Seventy-Second and One Hundred and Sixth Pennsyl- 
vania and a battery to cover a large interval which neither he nor Sum- 
ner understood. 

As we have seen, the first assault of the Confederates carried Kem- 
per's Brigade to the left of McCall, and unfortunately carried in front of 
it six companies of Twelfth Reserves, part of Third Reserves, non-com- 
batants, etc. Things thus early in the action did look uncomfortable on 



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the Quaker Road for a little while, and seme of the generals there lost 
their heads, which they did not appear to recover during the entire 
afternoon and evening. Sumner soon saw, as he says, " that this 
crowd was composed only of a few soldiers and some stragglers." He 
sends for Sully's and Dana's brigades and for Kirby's and his other 
batteries, although Kemper's advance was easily checked by the Six- 
teenth Massachusetts and Sixty-Ninth Pennsylvania and a battery of 
Sumner's Corps. When this last Confederate assault reached the Union 
front line Dana's and Sully's brigades had arrived near the cross roads. 
Field, commanding Hill's leading brigade, says : "It was late on the 
evening of the 30th when I was notified to move upon the field of 
battle. * * * About SOO yards in front were two of the enemy's bat- 
teries posted in an open field on right and left of the road ; heard that 
these batteries had been several times taken and retaken during the day, a 
constant struggle being maintained for their possession. At this time 
(sundown) they were held by the enemy, but the horses were killed or 
wounded. He (the enemy) was unable to remove the guns. * * * The 
whole line rushed forward under heavy fire, beat the enemy back from 
the guns into the woods beyond and jjushed him on the right of the road 
back a half mile. The two regiments on this side (right) of the road, 
Fifty-Fifth and Sixtieth Virginias, were at, tiiistime in the enemy's rear, 
having penetrated thi'ought the centre, but were withdrawn before he 
could profit by the circumstance. * * * The charge was impetuously 
made and was an instance wliere bayonets were really crossed." (No 
regiments on Union side, except Pennsylvania Reserves, claim to have 
crossed bayonets over guns.) 

" Fortieth Virginia, on my extreme left, became detached, * * * 
The Forty-Seventh Virginia manned the guns on the left of the road 
and fired them. * * * Forty-Seventh Virginia captured General 
McCall late in evening." 

Colonel Mayo, Forty-Seventh Virginia, says : "Were called on with 
brigade to advance on two batteries which had been taken by Long- 
street's Division, but which had been rt-captured. * * * Tlie Forty- 
Seventh Virginia, with the Second Virginia (Fortieth Virginia) battalion, 
were ordered to advance upon the battery on the left of the road, which 
they did, charging immediately in frc nt and exposed to a raking fire of 
grape and canister for thrte-quai-ters of a mile ; '•' * * fired on and 
charged and drove off the cannonf ers, followed about fifty yards beyona, 
when were opened on upt.n both flanks, halted, one of the guns was 



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turned and fired to our left, where the firing was hottest. * * * xhe 
fire from the front liaving nearly ceased, while that on the right and 
left still continued, * * * formed command on the road." (Fell 
back to the road.) 

Colonel Mallory, Fifty-Fifth Virginia, says : " We were formed in. 
line of battle on the right of the road. Sixtieth Virginia on my left. 
We advanced through the woods until we came to the brow of the hill, 
where was a battery recently taken from the enemy. The brigade 
(Wilcox's) which had taken it had disappeared, and the enemy had 
advanced to within a few yards of the battery. We halted, fired a few 
volleys and charged, driving the enemy about one mile in the woods, 
where we halted to reform ; finding enemy about to flank us we fell 
back to the edge of the woods ; rested here till guns were carried off." 
Colonel Starke, Sixtieth Virginia, says : " Regiment advanced at double 
quick nearly two miles to the brow of a hill, where a battery of eight 
guns, Randol's Pennsylvania battery" (guns on McCall's left) "was 
posted, which had been taken from the enemy, and by them recaptured 
before we reached the groimd. * * * Joined Fifty-Fifth Virginia in 
charge. * * * After driving them for half a mile beyond this point 
(the batteries) the brigade was ordered to halt, where we remained for 
half an hour, it being then quite dark ; the enemy not again appearing, 
the regiment returned to the battery." 

Fenders' Brigade, following Field's, " reached the batteries aban- 
doned on his left of the road," but late in evening met some of the Union 
reinforcements, pushed forward late in evening by Sumner and Kear- 
ney . Gregg's Brigade advanced to Confederate left. Colonel McGowan, 
of Gregg's Brigade (there is no brigade report). Fourteenth South Caro- 
lina, says : " Threw out skirmishers and advanced to the left and front ; 
found General Featherstone wounded ; enemy's skirmishers all about ; 
came upon a hasty breastwork of the enemy, drove back his skirmish- 
ers, halted at edge of the clearing and kept up for a time volume of fire 
on the enemy, who returned it ; just at dark both sides evidently thought 
were firing at friends. An officer of Twentieth Indiana (Captain Read) 
came into our line during this cessation of firing. * * * Soon af tei* 
heard enemy give order commence firing. * * * Took twenty prison- 
ers : H. Patrick, Company B, Twelfth Reserves ; F. Harvey Fortieth 
New York ; others mostly of Twentieth Indiana." 

McGowan's were the skirmishers Kearney " came upon," as he 
says, " as he came back to his left."' There is no report of Archer's 



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-Brigade, but Pender says: " At this position (position of the batteries) 
I left a few men to hold the flank (right flank), and puslied forward the 
rest into the woods; but for failure of ammunition would have taken 
;uany prisoners" (same trouble on Union side); "enemy in disorder, 
but in considerable numbers. We here forced a battery, wliich had 
opened on our right, to leave;" (could this have been De Eussy's battery ?); 
" dark coming on, withdrew to edge of the woods, holding ground and 
batteries tahen; got some of Field's Brigade to hold batteries in front 
■whilst I held the right flank. Subsequently led forward one of Field's 
regiments, so as to flank enemy on left of the road, where firing wa? 
going on; after making these arrangements found Archer was on mj 
right flank and right." 

J. R. Anderson's Brigade, led in late in the evening on Robinson'* 
front, " received a sudden volley and scattered." 

It is impossible to give the exact positions of the various Unioij 
regiments which were brought up to meet this last Confederate assault 
to reinforce Kearney's Division and to close the interval on McCall', 
left and left rear. 

No Confederate commander states that he moved down the New 
Market Road between Randol's and Cooper's batteries; each commander 
"who reaches these batteries states distinctly that his comni.and went to 
the right or left of this road at this point. There was no Confederate 
advance to their left of this road more than a few yards east of Robin- 
.son's original line. None reached the Charles City Road here. 

It would appear that until Field's attack, late in the evening, 
IdcCall's Division held the woods on McCall's left rear to the open field 
on this left rear; that aU the Confederate troops who passed McCall's 
left kept to the left (their right) of this opening; they were stopped at 
this west edge of the opening by Sumner's batteries, and farther to the 
Union left by the Sixty-Ninth Pennsylvania and Sixteenth Massachu- 
setts. But Field's attack drove back the feeble force McCall's Division 
could offer at this time at this point, wliich enabled Field to follow 
through the woods down nearly to the cross roads, getting literally in 
rear of McCall. Some of Pender's men followed Field's in this direction. 

To meet A. P. Hill's assault the Union line in rear of McCall was 
posted or arranged about as foUows: Hooker's right on the country road, 
.Sixteenth Massachusetts on road, to right of this road, in edge of woods, 
Sixty-Ninth Pennsylvania: then an interval of 200 to 300 yards, being 
an open field with battery in rear; then a battery supported by tiie 



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Seventy-First Pennsylvania; then an interval of 200 to 300 yards, with 
battery in rear; then the Seventy-Second Pennsylvania pushed forward 
into the woods in rear of McCall's left, One Hundred and Sixth Pennsyl- 
vania, in rear of Sixty-Ninth Pennsylvania, in reserve. Field here 
probably struck Seventy-Second Pennsylvania, Colonel Baxter, first; 
Seventy-First moved to Baxter's assistance, and One Hundred and 
Sixth Pennsylvania, Colonel Morehead, started to aid Baxter, when 
Dana's Brigade (Nineteenth and Twentieth Massachusetts, Seventh 
lyiichigan and Forty-Second New York) arrived. Three of Dana j regi- 
ments, Twentieth Massachusetts, Seventh Michigan and Forty-Second 
New York, under Colonel Lee, were in advance; the Seventh Michigan 
and Forty-Second New York were taken in flank as they arrived at 
double quick, and were repulsed; the Seventy-First Pennsylvania and 
Nineteenth Massachusetts were hurried into the interval just left. 

Dana, is trying to fill the interval from Baxter's left to right of 
;Sixty-Ninth Pennsylvania, Sully's Brigade follows immediately; 
Fifteenth Massachusetts, Eighty-Second and Thirty-Fourth New York 
^re brought up to support this line; Eighty -Second and Thirty-Fourth 
New York well to the right; the First Minnesota is first halted to sup- 
port a battery, but is afterwards brought up to the line in the woods. 
Meagher's Brigade is advanced to Sumner's right, and to right rear of 
line first formed; thus the whole of Dana's, Sully's and Meahger's 
brigades is sent to reinforce Burns' Brigade. Caldwell's Brigade 
Arrives soon after these brigades, and somewhat more to the right. 
Barlow, of this brigade, appears to have sought the firing, and thus 
found Robinson's front, where he arrived most opportunely to relieve 
Hays. The remainder of Caldwell's Brigade appears to have halted at 
the Cross Roads, where Kearney found it just after dark, and pushed it 
into Robinson's right. Kearney's line had not been broken, but was 
forced slightly back on its left by reason of the "Thompson" interval. 
Kearney re-established it after dark, and when Taylor's Brigade of 
Slocum's Division reported to Kearney, the latter pushed Taylor out to 
Robinson's old front and to Randol's battery. 

Sumner, after his line was firmly established, finding no more 
pressure upon it, ordered it advanced, and moved it out to the left part 
of McCall's front line. His line, on account of darkness, moved out in 
■& confused manner. The Twentieth Massachusetts appears to have 
passed over the German guns and met the Confederates on their side of 
.McCall's battlefield ; here received a volley or two, when the regiment 



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returned to the Quaker Road, Field's Brigade soon afterwards reoccu- 
pied the ground where these and Cooper's guns stood. The Sixteenth 
Massachusetts and Sixty-Ninth Pennsylvania advanced up the countiy 
road to their front, to McCall's battlefield, met about the same reception 
as the Twentieth Massachusetts, and then returned to their old position. 
The official reports show that no Union troops were under fire more 
than a few minutes, and that about sunset, except McCalFs Division, 
two brigades of Kearney's Division, two regiments of Grover's Brigade 
of Hooker's Division, and Sixtj-- Ninth Pennsylvania of Burns' Brigade. 
About the heaviest loss in any of the reinforcing regiments was iB the 
Twentieth Massachusetts, whose loss was partially due to the giving 
away of part of the brigade to which it belonged. 

Sumner and Kearney re-established the front line in part, and made 
a strong line across the interval between McCall's and Hooker's posi- 
tions. The responsibiUty for leaving this interval should rest upon 
Heintzelman and Hooker, who knew of its existence, yet took no stepa 
to fill it. Heintzelman appears to have directed in person the posting 
of the froht line of defence. This battle, with the exception of the loss 
of guns (artillery), was a great success for the Un'on arms, and many 
Union officers claim that most of these guns could have been brought 
off if General Heintzelman had not ordered them left, he fearing, he 
said, to bring on a renewal of the contest. These guns lay between the 
lines until the Union troops retired. The Confederate losses far exceeded 
the Union, and two of the strongest and best Confederate divisions 
were so used up as to be unavailable in the engagement of the next day, 
•whereas Heintzelman's and Sumner's corps were intact in the next 
battle. 

The six companies of the Twelfth Regiment, which were preparing 
a breastwork two to three hundred yards in front of the left of McCall's- 
line of battle, were overrun and necessarily broken and carried back 
by the rush of Kemper's Brigade and Jenkins' Brigade skirmishers. 
The men of the Twelfth Regiment would have been overrun if they 
had been prepared to meet such an attack, as the woods in front was 
less than a hundred yards off, and so thick the advancing enemy could 
not be seen until he came out of the woods. Moreover, the batteries in 
their rear could be of no assistance in the position in which these com- 
panies were. The officers and men of these six companies of the 
Twelfth Regiment who remained to the last were able to fire not more 
than two to three times, and were then killed, wounded or taken pris- 



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oners. When we consider that Wilcox, with no larger force, coming 
from this woods, carried Cooper's battery on its front whilst it was sup- 
ported by infantry, the Confederates having a longer distance to pass 
over in the open field before reaching Cooper's battery than they had 
to overrun the position of the detached companies of the Twelfth 
Regiment, we can see there was no chance for this small force of the 
Twelfth Regiment to hold their position. It was a case of retreat or 
become prisoners. It was a mistake placing so small i force detached, 
as this was, and to this error was due the misfortune of these com- 
panies, for which they were blameless. The officers and men of these 
six companies met no Union force to rally upon till they reached the 
Quaker Road, more than half a mile in rear of their lat: position. Here 
those who vvtre not wounded or completely exhausted rallied and joined 
various commands. Twentieth Massachusetts and others. The remain- 
ing four companies of the Twelfth Regiment continued lo support the 
German batteries until Wilcox's charge, when these batteries, or what 
remained of the personnel of them after Kemper's charge, retiring over 
these four companies, officers and men of these companies joined the 
organized commands to their right. Some of these continued on the 
front until all the Union troops hereabouts retired. 

A portion of the Twelfth charged with the Twentieth Jlassachu- 
setts after dark. Other members of the regiment were in front as far 
to the right as Kearney's Division, H. Patrick, Company B, being 
taken pri-oner on his front line after dark, together with members of the 
Twentieth Indiana. 

A part of the Third Reserves, which were on picket on the left 
front of McCaU's line, being driven in, as heretofore related, by charge 
of Kemper's and Jenkins' brigades, was forced back on the position of 
the Twelfth Regiment ; another part of Third Reserves was forced back 
to the Union left rear, and, following the wooded country, came upon 
Sickles' Brigade of Hooker's Division, where, being mistaken for, and 
being somewhat mixed up with, the Confederate skirmishers, were fired 
upon by Sickles' men, which fire they may by mistake have returned. 
General Hooker's statement in his report that the Reserves fired upon 
and killed men of Sickles' command was not founded upon facts, since 
none of Sickles' Brigade were kiUed in this action. Sickles' report 
states that " his losses in this action were nominal ;" in fact, two or 
three men wounded. Abo Sickles' statement in his report that these 
men tried to run through his line, and that he drove them back over to 



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the right of McCall's position, is not founded upon facts. There were too 
few men of the Reserves on his front— certainly not a hundred— to run 
down his brigade, several thousand strong. And to have driven these 
unfortunate Union skirmishers over to McCall's position, three quartei-s 
of a mile to his right front, over ground then and for hours afterwards 
held by the Confederates, was impossible. 

The unjxist statements made by Hooker, Sickles, Heintzelman (the lat- 
ter always criticised severely troops not in his command) and other com- 
manders, in regard to the conduct of the Reserves in this engagement, 
were founded— 1st, upon misinformation ; 2d, the number and variety 
of men and materials carried to the rear by Kemper's charge, all of 
which was due to the interval left by Heintzelman and Hooker on 
Hooker's right ; 3d, on account of the misbehavior of some supporting 
troops (the report of a colonel of Massachusetts troops states that 
Sickles' line gave way and his regiment was sent to close the interval left ; 
it is difficult to see what made Sickles' line yield, as nothing but enemy's 
skirmishers were in his front) ; 4th, by reports of officers and men of 
the Reserves who had retreated before Kemper's or Wilcox's charges, 
and who did not rejoin their divisions or other troops, as they ought to 
have done, at the front. Lieutentant Randol, of the artillery, was 
more excusable than any other person for making unjust remarks, for 
he fought his guns magnificently and assisted in their recapture, but 
what artilleryman would admit that his guns could be taken in front 
across an open field, three to five hundred yards wide ? 

The writer believes a full record of what occurred (which he has 
endeavored to give) on this hard fought battlefield is the best defence of 
the Reserve Division. 

Longstreet, the best fighting Confederate corps commander, says : 
"After prehminary artillery firing he began the fight at 4 P. M.," and it 
continued uninterrupted until after dark on a clear midsummer's day. 
He says : " This was one of the hardest contested fights of the war." 

General McCall (who displayed good skill and the greatest courage 
and determination), commanding officer of the division, after losing all 
his staff aud many orderlies, killed and wounded, wliile at the head of 
a remnant of his division, and while seeking a position in front of his 
original battlefield to post this remnant, after dark, being accompanied 
by only two orderlies, was captured by the Forty-Seventh Virginia, of 
Field's Brigade. This remnant of more than five hundred men in com- 
mand of Maior Stone and other officers of the Reserves, remained on 



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their old line of battle on the right of the New Market Road immedi- 
ately behind the abandoned guns, so often taken and retaken during 
this bloody day, begging to be allowed to haul off by hand these dis- 
abled gims (there were no horses and many of the carriages were dis- 
abled), until the order for retreat at midnight was received. The Con- 
federates admit they had 18,000 men engaged. 

McCall had not to exceed 5,600, and Kearney (Robinson and Berry's 
brigades) about 4,500; 10,100 on Union front line. The Reserves cap- 
tured three Confederate flags, and carried to the rear several hundred 
prisoners. The Confederate losses are unknown, but according to the 
statements of the Confederate generals, Longstreet, A. P. Hill, Kemper, 
Wilcox, Field, Prior and Featherstone, they were very severe. 

The losses in McCairs and Kearney's divisions were also very severe. 

Tlie losses in Hooker's Division were in a few regiments only. This 
divisions loss not equal to the loss of one regiment of the Reserves. 

The losses of Sedgwick's Division of Sumner's Corps— only division 
of corps engaged-not very serious, except in Sixty-Ninth Pennsylvania, 
All occurred in a few minutes just at or after dark. 

During the afternoon of the 30th, whilst the contest raged on the 
New Market Road, the Confederates advanced a force down the river 
road, and opened with some field guns upon the Union Reserve artil- 
ery posted on the west side of Malvern Hill. The Reserve artillery 
soon crushed the Confederate light battery, and their advance on the 
liver road was checked. Later in the war, McCall and Kearney would 
have entrenched their whole front. 



CHAPTER VIII. 

BATTLE OF MALVERN HILL, JULY 1, 1863, AND HARRISON'S 
LANDING, JULY 2 TO AUGUST 11, 1862. 

"The position selected for resisting the farther advance of the 
enemy, on the 1st of July, was with the left and centre cf our lines rest- 
ing on ]\[alvern Hill, while the right curved backwards through a 
wooded country toward a point below Haxall's, on James River. Mal- 
vern Hill is an elevated plateau about a mile and a half by three-quar- 
ters of a mile in area, well cleared of timber, and with several converg- 
ing roads running over it. In front are numerous defensible ravines, 
and the ground slopes gradually toward the north and east to the wood- 
land, giving clear range for artillery in those directions. Toward the 
northwest the plateau falls off more abruptly into a ravine which extends 
to James River. Froin the position of the enemy, his most obvious lines 
of attack would come from the direction of Richmond and White Oak 
Swamp, and would almost of necessity strike us upon the left wing. 
Here, therefore, the lines were strengthened by massing the troops and 
collecting the principal part of the artillery. Porter's Corps held the left 
of the line (Sykes' Division on the left, Morrell's on the right), with the 
artillery of his two divisions advantageously posted, and the Reserve 
artilleiy so disposed on the high ground that a concentrated fire of some 
60 gims could be brought to bear upon any jwint in his front or left. 

Colonel Tyler also had, with great exertion, succeeded in getting ten 
of his siege guns in position on the highest point of the hill. Couch's 
Division was placed on the right of Porter ; next came Kearney and 
Hooker, next Sedgwick's and Richardson's, next Smith's and Slocum's, 
then the remainder of Keyes' Coii:)s, extending back nearly to the river. 
The Pennsylvania Reserve Corps was held ia reserve, and stationed 
behind Porter's and Couch's position. One brigade of Porter's was 
thrown to the left on the low ground, to protect the flank from any 
movement direct from the Richmond Road, The line was very strong 
along the whole front of the open plateau, but from thence to the 
extreme right the troops were more deployed. * « - The right was 



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rendei-ed as secure as possible by slashing the timber and by barricading 
the roads. Commodore Rogers, conamaudiug the flotilla on the James 
River, placed his gunboats so as to protect our flanks, and to command 
the approaches from Richmond. 

Between 9 and 10 A. M., the enemy commenced feeling along 
our whole left wing with his artillery and skirmishers as far to the right 
as Hooker's Division. About two o'clock a column of the enemy was 
observed moving toward our right within the skirt of the woods in front 
of Heintzelman's Corps, but beyond the range of our artillery. AiTange- 
nients were at once made to meet the anticij^ated attack in that quarter, 
but, though the column was long, occupying more than two hours in 
passing, it disappeared and was not again heard of. * * * About 
3 P. M. a heavy fire of artillery opened on Kearney's left and 
Couch's Division, speedily followed up by a brisk attack of infantry on 
Couch's front. The artillery Avas replied to with good efl'ect by our own, 
and the infantry of Couch's Division remained lying on the groimd 
until the advancing column was within short musketry range, when 
they sprang to their feet and poured in a deadly volley, which entirely 
broke the attacking force and drove them in disorder back on their own 
ground. This advantage was followed up until we had advanced the right 
of our line some 700 or 800 yards, and rested upon a thick clump of trees, 
giving us a strong position and a better fire. Shortly after 4 P. M. the firing 
ceased along the whole front, but no dipositlon was evinced on the part 
of the enemy to withdraw from the field. Caldwell's Brigade, having 
been detached from Richardson's Division, was stationed upon Couch's 
right by General Porter, to whom he had been ordered to report. Tlie whole 
line was surveyed by the generals" (except the General-in-chief), "and 
evertliing held in readiness to meet the coming attack. At 6 P. M, the 
enemy suddenly opened upon Couch and Porter with the whole strength 
of his artillery, and at once began pushing forward his columns of attack 
to carry the hill. Brigade after brigade formed under cover of the woods, 
started at a run to cross the open space and charge our batteries, but 
the heavy fii-e of our guns, with the cool and steady volleys of our 
infantry in every case sent them reeling back to shelter, and covered 
the ground with their dead and wounded. * * * About 7 P. M,, as 
fresh, troops were accumulating in front of Porter and Couch, IMeagher's 
and Sickles' Brigades, as soon as it was considered prudent to withdraw 
any of Sumnei"'s and Heintzelman's troops, were sent to reinforce that 
part of the line and hold the position. These brigades relieved such 



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regiments of Porters's Corps and Couch's Division as had exjjeuded their^ 
atntnunition, and batteries from the Reserve vpere pushed for"-ard to 
replace those whose boxes were empty. Until dark the enemy per- 
sisted in his efforts to take the position so tenaciously defended ; but 
despite his vastly superior numbers, his repeated and desperate attacks 
were repulsed with fearful loss, and darkness ended the battle at Mal- 
vern Hill, though it was not till after 9 p. M. that the artillery ceased 
its fire. During the whole battle Commodore Rogers added greatly to 
the discomfiture of the enemy by throwing shells among his reserves 
and advancing columns." 

After the battle of Malvern Hill, in which the Confederate army 
had been severely punished, and whose attacks had been completely 
repulsed, the fighting generals of the Armj^ of the Potomac were luiani- 
mous for remaining where they were, or for making an advance towards 
Richmond. The ground at Malvern Hill was high and dry, and could 
be easily intrenched so as to be perfectly safe for even a smaller force 
than the Army of the Potomac to hold. A strong detachment could be 
made to protect the water communications. It was supposed strong 
reinforcements would now be sent to the Army of the Potomac. General 
McClellan, who did not remain long enough with the fighting part of his 
army to feel as that jjart felt, but who saw so much of his rear, which 
was, of course, in a demoralized condition, believing he could not hold 
his communications on the James without the aid of the navy, and the 
commander of the naval force being unable to promise to do so unaided. 

McClellan ordered a retreat to Harrison's Landing, below City Point, 
that being the supposed dangerous point in his rear. 

" The Reserve regiments broke camp at ]\Ialvern Hill just before 
midnight on the 1st of July, and took up the march towards Harrison's 
Landing. Though the night was dark, the road was well lighted up by 
numerous fires that were kept continually burning by the guards 
stationed by the wayside. At daybreak a short halt was ordered, tlie 
ti'oops rested and refreshed themselves from their scanty supplies, and 
then, resuming their march, moved on through the woods until they 
crossed Herring Run, and debouched on the open plain at Harrison's 
Landing. Several of the regiments were ordered to encamp in a beauti- 
fiU field of oats, nearly ripe for the reaper ; the heavy rain and the con- 
tinual tramp of the troops soon transformed the silvery freshness of 
the \vaving grain into a plain of mud. The whole division Avas, during^ 
the afternoon of the second, ordered to encamp in a dense pine thicket. 



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The men cut boughs and constructed huts and shelters to protect them- 
selves from the storm." So writes Woodward. 

The position occupied by the Army of the Potomac at Harrison's 
Landing consisted of a strip of land on the northern baxik of the James 
River, about five miles long by three deep, with heights along the north- 
west portion, with flats extending from these heights to the river, and a 
swamp on the northeast side extending to the river. 

On the 8th of July Colonel J. H. Taggart resigned, and Lieutant- 
Colonel M. D. Hardin, in view of his promotion to the Colonelcy (the 
"War Department had refused to allow him to join the regiment as Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel), was ordered by General McCIellan to assume command of 
the Twelfth Regiment. The division changed carap a day or two subse- 
quently and went into the permanent camp, wliich it occupied during its 
sojourn at Harrison's Landing. This camp bordered the swamp on the 
northeast part of the ground occupied by the whole army, and was about 
a mile in a direct line from the river. Orders were issued for putting the 
camp into perfect sanitary condition. Good sinks, perfectly screened, 
were constructed. Deep wells were simk by placing barrels on top of 
each other ; a depth of at least three barrels was required. Drills were 
resumed, and efforts made to get the men to move about and rouse 
their spirits. All men of the regiment who had been found by the late 
campaign to be unfit for miUtary duty by reason of physical disability 
were discharged. The serious cases of sickness were sent North, and 
everything possible done to get an effective force. 

''Various kinds of sickness (fevers, diarrhoea, scurvy, etc.) attacked 
the members of the regiments by reason of their late extreme exertions, 
bad food, lack of food, lack of preparation of food, overwork in march- 
ing, lack of proper sleep, all in addition to the natural excitement of 
continual battle." For the first two weeks after settling in this camp 
things looked very blue, but as soon as fresh vegetables arrived (about end 
of July) and the men were strong enough to walk about in comfort, and 
to drill, the majority of the members of the regiment plucked up their 
spirits and began to look hopefully to the future. In the third week 
the camp regimental hospital was free of sick, all were improving, but 
there still hung to most a tendency to diarrhoea. About this time a 
most welcome order was received to picket the south side of the James. 
Never did a command seek picket duty as did ours at this time, that on 
south side of the James. The green corn found there was devoured by 
the dozen ears to the man. The doctors said this would kill us, but on 



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the contrary this cured the diarrhoea, set us up and gave us great spirits. 
Ever since then we have known how the ''Johmes" managed to figlit 
so well. Corn and bacon are far superior to "hardtack" and coflfee, 
even with " salt horse " thrown in, for soldier food. 

Many times we thanked, in spirit, the Confederate batteries which 
shelled us on the night of July 31st, 1863. Soon after the arrival of the 
regiment at Harrison's Landing, an order was issued by General Sey- 
mour, comi::anding the division, for each regiment to be armed through- 
out with on 3 kind of weapon. This ord^r hit the Twelfth Regiment 
very hard, as the companies were not uniformly armed, and "K" com- 
pany had Wie'w own arms, rifles issued by the State, or owned by the 
men. Tbe first order vi-as that the Twelfth should be armed with 
smooth bore muskets. This naturally caused the members of "K" com- 
pany to rebel. In their ignorance of the force of military law in the 
presence of the enemy, they got themselves into a very bad scrape. The 
regiment was finally armed with the Springfield rifle musket, but "K" 
company was broken up, its officers discharged, and the men distributed 
to the other companies. Captain Baker of Company "I" died August, 
8, 1862, and was buried with military honors. General Reynolds, and 
the ofiicers and men who had been captured during the late campaign, 
renu-ued to the command about August 8th, and General Reynolds 
assumed command of the division. General McCall was not well enough 
to undertake a new campaign. 

The authorities having decided to withdraw the Army of the Poto- 
mac to the front of Washington, McClellan was, July 30th, directed to 
send back his sick, and on August 3d ordered to withdraw the army. 
Sypher says : ' ' The majority of the officers expressed themselves in 
favor of a withdrawal." This decision on the part of most of them was 
due to the fact that it was said the Army of the Potomac could not be 
adequately reinforced where it was. How many brave men laid down 
their lives, and how many of us will go crippled to our graves by reason 
of this decision. At what a fearful cost of noble life was it that we got 
back here in 1864 on the James River, from which it was so ea^y to 
move us. 

In the discussion between Halleck and McClellan, as to whether 
McCleUan moved his troops and sick as quickly as he could, the record 
appears to sustain McClellan, there being delays in fitting up hospitals 
at Fort Monroe and other places ; Burnside's command using vessels 
which belonged to the Hospital Department of the Army of the Potomac, 



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and a general interference by the authorities at Wasliington with the 
■water transportation of the Army of the Potomac, which caused 
•delays. General Lee's main army remained near Richmond tUl the 
13th of August, when, he says, he was definitely informed that the 
Army of the Potomac was to leave the Peninsula, which shows that 
Oeneral Lee thought he could not move the main body of liis army 
away from Richmond so long as there was a strong Union force on the 
James. 

The Twelfth, Regiment was embarked at Harrison's Landing August 
11, 1863, and arrived at Acquia Creek August 13, and with tho divi- 
sion moved by rail and went into camp near Falmouth, Virginia. 

Our baggage, knapsacks, etc., went on to Washington. We haven't 
got them yet. For the coming campaign we were to be in light 
inarching order, sure enough. 



CHAPTER IX. 
GENERAL POPE'S CAMPAIGN. 

On the night of August 21, 1862, at 10 o'clock, the Reserve division 
moved out of camp at Falmouth, Va., leaving tents standing. The 
knapsacks of the men and baggage of the officers were quietly reposing^ 
Id or near "Washington, D. C, where, it is said, they were subsequently 
given away to contrabands and others as old rubbish. 

It was dark as Erebias; our brigade (the Third), commanded bj 
General Jackson, got lost, wandered about till daylight; when, finding^ 
itself still in sight of camp, it then moved on the proper road and 
advanced six or eight miles, when it stopped for the exhausted men tO' 
make coffee. The night had been hot and sultry; the morning began 
hotter still, with a brilliant simlight. Within an hoiu- after halting, the 
brigade resumed the march along a turnpike in the direction of Kelly's 
Ford. The march was continued with infrequent and very short halts 
till dark, when an enforced bivouac was made in a fine open wood. The 
men had by reason of the heat and rapid march and previous night's 
march, fallen out along the road till the brigade was less than a regi- 
ment, and the regiments only companies. The white, glistening turnpike, 
with very little water, had been a most trying route. General Reynolds 
had the whole night's , start on our brigade; he succeeded with the head 
of the column in reacliing the vicinity of Kelly's Ford that night (22d). 
That night and day's march was one of the hardest we ever made. Only * 
the next day and night's march can be compared with it. As each 
person struggled into the place of the bivouac he fell down utterly 
exhausted. No one attempted to make coffee; eveiyone decided to rest 
first and make coffee afterwards. The men's misfortunes were not yet 
full ; for, just as they began to get strength to move about, a Virginia 
Summer thunder storm broke upon them; it 'was found our beautiful 
woods was a swale, which in rain storms received all the water in the 
vicinity. 

The writer endeavored to rest upon the upper side of a log; he 
quickly recalled the saying, "easier than rolling off a log;" he was 
finally content with the angle of a worm fence. 



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At daylight the next morning (23d) the Tfard Brigade moved on., 
towards United States Ford, and afterwards changing direction, reached 
the church near Kelly's Ford about 10 a. m., to find that General Rey- 
nolds with the head of the division had already gone on up the Rappa- 
hannock. The Lnen were allowed a rest of half an horn-, when the Third 
Brigade started for Rappahannock Station, Soon after starting the 
ambulances, wagons and sick were sent off on a road leading to the 
right, which, it was said, led to Bristoe's Station, on the Orange and 
Alexandria Railroad, At the time we were not certain where this road 
led, and the question arose as to what instructions to leave here for the 
stragglers -who had fallen out the day before, whether they were to 
folloM^ the road to Rappahannock Station, or to go off indefinitely to the 
right. As many of these stragglers were our best men (simply overcome 
by the heat in the previous day's march), we did not like to lose them„ 
However, the greater part of them went over towards Bristoe Station, 
and our division got a bad name for straggling on account of these men, 
many of whom were not stragglers in the usual sense of that term. 
Very few of these men succeeded in finding their commands during the 
ensuing campaign. The Third Brigade overhauled the head of the 
division before reaching Rappahannock Station, where we arrived in 
the afternoon. It was expected our division would find McDowell's 
Corps here, but instead, it found the Confederate cavalry, followed by 
the Confederate infantry skirmishers, taking possession of McDowell's 
earthworks near Rappahannock Station. Skirmishers were thrown out 
from the head of the division, at sight of whom and the Army of the 
Potomac flags, borne by the division, the Confederate cavalry and 
skirmishers evacuated the station, and our division took possession. 
General Leo now knew a portion of the Army of the Potomac had 
joined Pope's army, and he decided at once to move to his left, to pro- 
tect his rear from an advance by the Army of the Potomac, and to strike 
Pope's right before all of the Army of the Potomac could join Pope's 
army. 

General Pope designed crossing the Rappahannock (22d and 24th), 
near the station, to strike Lee's communications. 

General Lee saw this design, but instead of preparing to meet such 
a movement by concentration here, he decided to move on Pope's com- 
munications. This was a good and safe movement on Lee's part, and 
not subject to the criticism which it has usually received. It succeeded. 
Moreover, if he had been defeated in battle, Lee could have fallen back. 



on the Shenandoah Valley, Soon afttr the Reserve division arrived at 
Eappahannock Station, an order was received for it to join McDowell's 
Corps, then moving toward 'Warrenton. After a few minutes rest the 
division moved along th3 river road back of Barnett's Ford to the soimd 
of artillery. Darkness and rain soon came, also a few of the enemy's 
shells. That was a night march we will never forget. 

There was Confederate cavalry all around us ; no one dared to strag- 
gle ; we had neither ambulances nor wagons ; it was necessary to keep 
■up or go to Richmond. Human endurance was put to a severe test that 
night. The march only terminated with dayUght, when we came upon 
one of McDowell's divisions in camp. We were ragged, shoeless, foot- 
sore, tired to death, with nothing but our guns and our battle-stained 
Hags to show we were soldiere. McDowell's men were fully equipped, 
completely uniformed, knapsacks and all, '* spick and span " new. They 
looked to us like a militia command out for parade. "We were welcomed 
T\-ith shouts of pleasure, and our cry of " Grab a root " was taken up and 
we were soon enjoying a hearty breakfast. The division joined Pope's 
army in a critical mood. There was no battle, no enemy visible but a 
few stray cavalrymen. Why march men as we had been marched? 
We had lost by exhaustion nearly one-third of our command, and that 
for nothing. Our division started from Falmouth nearly 4,000 strong ; 
we reported with little over 2,500. The distance by the route we marched 
T\-as about fifty miles, passed over in the hottest of weather, with thun- 
der-storms at night. We naturally asked. If there were such urgent neces- 
sity for reinforcements to Pope's army, why did our division remain so 
long at Falmouth under Bumside? 

General Pope wrote Kalleck at 9.15 p. 3:., June 22d. '"I must do 
one of two things : either faU back and meet Heintzelman behind Cedar 
Run (which is near Catlett's Station), or cross the Rappahannock with 
my whole force and assail the enemy's flank and rear. T must do one 
or the other at daylight ; which shall it be? I incline to the latter,"' and 
General Halleck, replying at 11 P. :ii., says : "that he tliinks the latter 
of the two propositions the best.'' Pope and Halleck would thus have 
done, in the face of Lee's victorious army, what the greatest complaint 
of McClellan rested upon, namely : have left the route to Washington 
open to Lee's advance. 

It never seems to have occurred to either Union general, that in the 
position that Lee then was, he could rest his army on the Shenandoah 
Valley, and let General Pope's army ro toward Richmond. The farther 



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the Union army went toward Richmond the more its right would be 
exposed. The generals who had fought Lee on the Peniusula thought 
that the only safe thing for the Union forces to do, at this time, was ta 
get to Centerville with as little loss as possible acd there concentrate the 
armies. Fortunately for General Pope, he was unable to attempt such 
a wild project. Sigel's slowness, as well as the rising river, were Gen- 
eral Pope's salvation. 

"Between 9.15 at night and the next morning, upon reports received 
from General Sigel, General Pope changed his mind, and, while his 
army was in the act of moving to cross the river at Rappahannock 
Station, he ordered it to concentrate to the support of General Sigel, who 
was ordered to Sulphur Springs or to Waterloo." McDowell was mov- 
ing in accordance with these last orders when the Reserves joined him 
(on 24th). General Pope also on the 23d (the day the Reserves were to 
join McDowell at Rappahannock Station) " abandoned his works beyond 
the river at Rappahannock Station, and withdrew the troops ; he 
destroyed the bridge there ; and for the time being, at any rate, he 
renounced his plan of recrossing the river — though not definitely." 

General Pope's army, when the Reserves joined it, or during the 
24th, was stationed as near as can be stated as follows : 

General Pope's headquarters at Warrenton ; Sigel's Corps, with 
Buford's cavalry in the front, at Sulphur Springs and Waterloo ; Bank's 
Corps near the river on Sigel's left ; Reno's two divisions (of Ninth 
Corps) between Sulphur Springs and Warrenton, near Sulphur Springs ; 
Ricketts' Division of McDowell's Corps between Waterloo and Warren- 
ton ; King's Division of McDowell's Corps between Warrenton and 
Sulphur Springs, east of Reno. The Reserve Division about one mile 
southeast of Warrenton ; Bayard's cavalry on the right front. Lee's 
army was immediately opposite on south bank of Rappahannock. Long- 
street on (Lee's) right, Jackson on left. Jackson's attempt to cross 
the river on 22d and 23d had been stopped by high water, and the 
opposition of Buford's cavalry supported by Sigel's Corps. 

The 25th and 26th, the Reserve Division remained near Warrenton,. 
moving over on the 26th to the Warrenton Pike, between Warrenton 
and Sulphur Springs. Here got some rest and plenty of roasting ears, 
resuming the diet the command enjoyed £o much on the south side of 
the James. On the 26th a large empty train of wagons was sent to our 
division, ostensibly to transport our baggage. As we had no baggage 
this train was parked on the Warrenton and Sulphur Springs Road 



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facing the Rappahannock River. Tradition says, " It remains there still 
waiting for our baggage.'' 

On the morning of the 25th General Jackson began liis famous 
toarch around the right of the Union army. This mo\ ement was indi- 
cated by a dust line, which was visible all this and a part of the fol- 
lowing day to all the Union troops located along the ^Varrenton Pike. 
The writer sought his friend, General Bayard, to learn where the enemy 
■was going. He could not find General Bayard, but conversed with 
many officers, all of whom thought we ought to be doing something 
to meet the enemy's movement, instead of lying idle in camp. When 
the order was received, the niglit of the 26th, to move to the rear, there 
was great relief to our anxiety. But we soon learned that the enemy 
had cut our communications at Manassas. How strong the enemy were 
in our rear was unknown, since Stuart's cavalry had been in our reai- 
for several days. Our fears that Stuart's cavalry might have gathered 
in a number of our division stragglers (many of whom, as before said, 
were good men) were not allayed by the news brought to the division at 
this time by the Second Regiment. It had marched from Bristoe in 
pursuit of our division, which, after many fatigues and great risks, it 
had reached at "Warrenton. Lieutenant-Colonel McCandless, of the 
Second, was entitled to much credit for bringing up the Second Regi- 
ment through an unknown country to an unknown position. General 
Pope, in carrying out practically his orders to " discard lines of retreat 
and bases of supply," and "letting these take care of themselves," at 
this time, lost the confidence, not only of his general officers, but of the 
rank and file as well, for the latter, as weU as their commanders, saw 
this turning movement of the enemy, and saw nothing aud heard of 
nothing being done to meet it. 

" General Pope on the morning of tlie 25th issued a general order 
for the formation of a new line of battle, running north and south. 
McDowell's Corps to be on the right, at Warrenton; Sigel on his left at 
Fayetteville; Banks from Bealton Station to a creek near the river; 
Reno at Kelly's Ford, with orders to watch the river. Reno accident- 
ally went to Warrenton Junction, Banks went to Bealton. Sigel was 
ordered by General Roberts of General Pope's staff (of his own motion), 
to hold Waterloo Bridge at all hazards, informing Sigel that he would 
be supported by Banks and McDowell. Sigel sent back to find Banks 
and McDowell ; neither were where General Roberts said they were, 
whereiipon Sigel was about to fall back in accordance with his prior 



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order to go to Fayetteville, when he received orders from General Pope 
to march to Warrenton. He burnt Waterloo Bridge and reached 
Warrenton at 2 A. M. August 36th." 

On the night of the 25th, General Heintzelman's Corps was at AVar- 
xenton Junction and had reported to General Pope (who had moved his 
headquarters to that point). Of the Fifth Corps, Army of the Potomac, 
Morrell's Division was at Kelly's Ford, Sykes' Division at Bealton 
Station. General Porter, commanding Fifth Corps, reported to General 
Pope on 26th. Early on 26th, McDowell's Corps was ordered to Sulphur 
.Springs ; King's Division went there and shelled the enemy, which was 
Anderson's Division, the rear guard of Lee's army. Buford was ordered 
-on 26th to move at dawn on 27th with all of his and Sigel's cavalry 
toward Chester Gap. General Pope appears to have taken it for granted 
Jackson's mgvement, which was visible all day of 25th and part of 26th, 
was toward the Shenandoah Valley, and he, in consequence, made no 
■effort till this order to Buford (which was entirely too late) to ascertain 
where Jackson was going, unless we consider the sending of a regiment 
of cavalry from Manassas on 26th toward Manassas Gap as such an 
^effort. General Pope did not believe General Lee would dare attempt 
to cut his (Pope's) communications. He has since said he expected 
Halleck and the reinforcements coming from Washington would pro- 
tect his rear. 

This movement of Jackson's was not as risky as it has generally 
been considered ; he could always fall back toward the Shenandoah 
Valley. Moreover, he had a preponderance of cavalry, which enabled 
him to screen himself and to keep watch of the movements of the Union 
army. 

At the close of this day (26th) Buford with his cavalry was near 
Waterloo ; Rickett's Division on the road between Waterloo and War- 
renton, about four miles from Waterloo ; King's Division on road 
between Warrenton and Sulphur Springs, one brigade at the Springs ; 
Reynolds' (Reserves) Division at Warrenton; Sigel's Corps near War- 
renton ; Banks at Fayetteville ; Reno and Heintzelman near Warrenton 
Junction, where were General Pope's headquarters ; Morrell's Division 
at Kelly's Ford ; Sykes' Division five to six miles east of Bealton Station. 
This same evening Jackson was at Bristoe Station with Taliaferro's, A. 
P. Hill's, and E well's divisions, about 25,000 strong. "He (Jackson) had 
marched all day from Salem, through White Plains, Tlioroughfare Gap 
.and Gainesville, and liad nowhere met with tlie smallest opposition,'* 



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yet his movement by its dust line had been visible from the region of 
Warrenton nearly two days. Comment is unnecessary. 

" On the evening of the 26th General Pope determined to form a 
new line of battle, running east and west, between Warrenton and 
Gainesville. General Pope wrote McDowell at 8 P. M., August 2Cth, 
that he thinks the fight will be at "Warrenton. Reno was ordered to 
move from Warrenton Junction at daylight (of 27th) to the neighbor- 
hood of Warrenton, and McDowell was then to send Reno to Greenwich; 
(Greenwich is nearer to Warrenton Junction than it is to Warrenton). 
Arrived at Greenwich, Reno was to throw forward four regiments and 
a battery to Gainesville. Heintzelman, who was at Warrenton Junction, 
was ordered to send Kearney's Division to Greenwich, to retain Hooker's 
Division. Porter was ordered to march through Fayetteville to vicinity 
of Warrenton." Soon after issuing these last orders, General Pope- 
learned that his railroad communication was cut. He ordered General 
Heintzelman " to put a regiment on a train of cars and send it dowa 
immediately to Manassas to ascertain what had occurred, repair the 
telegraph wires and protect the railroad there until further orders.'* 
But at midnight he wrote General McDowell that the question " whether 
the whole force of the enemy or the larger portion of it has gone round 
(through' Thoroughfare Gap) is a question that we must settle instantly." 

Early on the 37th General Pope issued the following order : " The 
following movements of troops will be made, viz : General McDowell 
with his own and Sigel's Corps and the division of Brigadier- General 
Reynolds will pursue the turnpike from Warrenton to Gainesville, so as 
to reach Gainesville, if possible, to-night. The army corps of Heintzel- 
man, with the detachment of the Ninth Corps imder General Reno (Gen- 
eral Reno leading) will take the road from Catletts station to Greenwich, 
so as to reach there to-night, or early in the morning. Major-General 
Reno wUl immediately communicate with General McDowell and his- 
command, as well as that of General Heintzelman, will support General 
McDowell in any operations against the enemy. General Porter will 
remain at Warrenton Junction till he is relieved by General Banks, when 
he will immediately push forward with his corps in the direction of 
Greenwich and Gainesville, to assist the operations on the right wing. 
Major-General Banks, as soon as he arrives at Warrenton Junction, will 
assume the charge of the trains and cover their movements toward 
Manassas Junction. * * * The general headquarters will be with 
"the corps of General Heintzelman until further notice." Reserve Divis- 



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ion moved on morning of the 27th toward Wa.shington on the Warren- 
ton Pike and went into camp tliat evening a little wtst of Biickland'» 
Mills, together with McDowell's Corps and part of Sigel's. During the 
day we heard of Jackson's raid upon the Orange and Alexandria Rail- 
road at Bri&toe Station, and we received our first order to " bag Jack- 
son." When first received we thought we had some chance to do this, 
and were in consequence highly elated and marched cheerfully to the 
rear, a direction our judgment told us was the proper one, wherever 
Jackson might be. We hoped to cut in two Lee's long line, which we 
knew extended from the upper Rappahannock to Bristoe via Thorough- 
fare Gap. The Reserve Division broke camp early on 28th and marched 
to the Warrenton Pike, where we were halted to wait for a wagon train 
to pass (we were told it was Sigel's). McDowell afterwards said it was 
Reynolds'. A4 our division had no wagons, unless the emi)ty train here- 
tofore spoken of could be classed as belonging to our division, McDowell 
was in error. That empty train, although attempted to be put on us, 
was not properly ours, nor did we see it again after it was parked in 
front of Warrenton. 

This delay was our first dif-appointment of tliis unlucky day. We 
could not see why our division could not pass the wagons, as the road 
was bordered by open country. After at least two hours' delay, our 
division moved north on the Warrenton Pike. It had followed Sigel's 
Corps. Sigel's troops now, about 10 a. m., disapj)eared. They had turned 
off on a road leading to the right along the Manassas Gap Railroad. 
The head of our division had just crossed a small stream (General 
McDowell with his stafifwas riding ahead), when a Confederate battery 
opened on our column from our left front. Our column stopped and 
Ransom's battery was hurried forward, whose guns (twelve pounds) not 
being able to reach the enemy. Cooper's battery of rifle pieces was sent 
up. The enemy's artillery fire at the first discharge killed and wounded 
some men in the Eighth Reserves. General McDowell and staff rode 
hastily off to the right to some high ground. We saw this hasty retreat 
of tlie corps headquarters, and would have thought no more about it 
except as a joke on McDowell and staff to have to " skedaddle " in 
presence of a division newly attached to the corps ; but it happened that 
our division did not see or hear from McDowell that day, nor so far as 
the writer is concerned till the morning of August 30th. After our bat- 
tery had fired a few rounds, skirmishers were sent out to the right 
front, south of the pike, not in the direction of the enemy who had fired 



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on us. This caused remarks at the time. An oflBcer or two rode off in 
the direction of the firing, the onlj- effort that was made to find out 
what the enemy was. 

After an hour or more our division was formed in line of battle on 
the right of the pike, and advanced diagonally to the right front, about 
parallel with the direction of the Manassas Gap Railroad (but the writer 
does not recollect any such railroad, wasn't it torn up and rails and 
ties all gone at this time ?). The division continued this advance in line 
over a very rough coimtry, through woods, over old fields, across c'ry 
runs, etc, for at least two hours ; it seemed a week. The day was hot, 
and no water to drink. After the entire command was about used up, 
the division was halted, and waited for orders. General Reynolds 
w^ent off to find McDowell or Pope for orders. He couldn't find McDow- 
ell ; he went to Manassas Junction, where he met General Pope, who 
ordered him to move his division towards CenterviUe. 

The division was started in that direction, but had not advanced far 
when, by General Pope's orders, it was moved towards Gainesville, the 
opposite direction from which it had moved in line of battle. There was 
no enemy, nor any Union troops in sight or hearing, at any time after 
the division left the Warrenton Pike in the morning. Towards night 
firing could be heard toward our front, in the direction of Gainesville. 
General Reynolds went off again to get orders, or at least to find some 
neighboring troops. When night overtook the division it was com- 
pletely isolated and practically lost. The division now, at dark, was 
bivouacked in an old field ; no water could be found. Pickets were 
thrown out in all directions. Never before or afterwards did the division 
get into such a predicament. It is feared this state of affairs did not 
cause the division to acqvure any additional confidence in either General 
Pope or General McDowell. We concluded we wouldn't " bag Jackson " 
that evening if he would "let us off" in the morning. The division 
rested quietly, very quietly, until daylight, when it moved, under com- 
mand of General Meade, in the direction of the firing, which began very 
early on our right front. General Meade, who also went after orders, 
got back during the night, but General Reynolds did not find us till we 
were moving to meet Sigel, whose firing we had heard. 

About 7 A. M. the division reached the small stream flowing between 
the Henry House and Bald Hil], where it halted. In the meantime 
General Reynolds, going in the direction of tiie firing to the left front, 
had found Gibbon's Brigade of King's Division, which was having a 



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hard fight. Gibbon, in his report, sajs : " General Doubledav, of King's 
Division, only upon the urgent solicitation of General Reynolds, sent me 
two regiments." General Reynolds remained here until Rickett's Divis- 
ion had reached King's position, or at least until he got news of Rick- 
ett's Division falling back on King's, and heard that King was going to 
fall back on Manassas ; then General Reynolds started out (about 9.80 
p. M.), to find his own division, which he reached soon after daylight, 
wliile on its way to Sigel's position. 

The movements of the remainder of the Union and Confederate 
forces on the 27th and 28th were about as follows : The regiment sent 
out towards Bristoe Station by General Heintzelman discovered that the 
enemy was in force in their front. General Hooker's Division was sent 
on 27th east on the Orange and Alexandria Railroad ; this met Ewell's 
Division of Confederates and, after a sharp fight, Ewell's troops fell back 
to Manassas Junction, where Jackson's main force was. Jackson during 
the night of the 27th-28th retreated toward the Warrenton Pike, his main 
body going directly west and taking position from Sudley Springs to an 
imfinished railroad track northwest of Groveton, a part of his force 
going to Centerville and then joining his left. Hooker halted between 
Bristoe and Manassas Junction. The morning of the 28th he moved to 
Manassas Junction, and then followed towards Centerville the part of 
Jackson's force which had fallen back in that direction. Kearney and 
Reno moved toward Greenwich on 27th, then followed Hooker's move- 
ments on 28th, supporting him, Kearney passing to the froiit towards 
evening. 

Longstreet, with General Lee's headquarters, followed during the 
26tli, 27th and 28th, the route of Jackson, a part of his command getting 
east of Thoroughfare Gap late on 28th. He was delayed somewhat by 
the inovements of Buford's cavalry. 

General Sigel, after crossing the Manassas Gap Railroad, moved 
southerly towards Manassas Junction ; when near this junction he, not 
being able to find General McDowell, sent to General Pope for orders, 
who directed him. to move toward Centerville. He moved a short dis- 
tance in that direction, when he received orders from General Pope to 
move toward the Warrenton Pike along the Sudley Springs Road. In 
the morning of the 28th General Sigel had reported to General McDowell 
that from information derived from his scouts and other sources he 
thought the enemy was in force on the west (or north) side of the War- 
renton Pike. This information, and the firing upon our division, failed 



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to cause General McDowell to make any effort to find out if the enemy- 
was in force west of the pike. He, on the contrary, in face of this 
information, obeyed to the letter an order he had received from General 
Pope, dated hours before and founded upon the presumption that Jack- 
son would remain at Manassas Junction. Late in the morning of the 
28th, Ricketts received orders to take his division to Thoroughfare Gap. 
He went there, where he met Longstreefs force, wliich he kept from 
passing through till after dark. 

King's Division remained near its camp of the night of 27th until 
lute in the afternoon of 28th, when, in obedience to General Pope's 
order to concentrate the army at Centerville, this division started along 
the pike to Centerville. King was not informed of General Pope's change 
of plan to concentrate at Groveton, nor was he informed that Sigel's 
scouts had located the enemy in force west of the Warrenton Pike. 
Hatch's Brigade led, with skirmishers out to the east of the road ; Hatch 
passed the right of the Confederate position without seeing any enemy. 
Patrick's Brigade foUowed Hatch's ; when it came opposite the Confed- 
erate right it was fired on. Gibbon, whose brigade foUowed Patrick's, 
sent out to see what was there ; his men ran into Taliaferro's Confed- 
erate division. Gibbon sustained his skirmishers and a most bloody 
contest ensued betw^een Gibbon's Brigade and two regiments of Double- 
day's Brigade on the Union side and Taliaferro's Division and two 
additional brigades on the Confederate side. King commanding his 
division would not support Gibbon. Doubleday, as we have seen, at 
Reynolds' request, sent two regiments to help Gibbon. 

At dark, Ricketts, finding himself without support, the enemj 
forcing both of his flanks, and hearing a severe engagement going on ia 
his rear, very properly fell back on King's Division. Upon consulting 
together — King being the senior — the whereabouts of the army and 
corps commanders as well as the location of any other Union troops 
being unknown to them, King and Ricketts decided to fall back on the 
Orange and Alexandria Railroad. No one who was not with us at this 
time can properly criticise the action of isolated commanders. It is 
seldom in war that division commanders are so isolated as they were at 
this time. 

Porter, with Fifth Corps, moved at 3 A. M. on 28th from near War- 
renton Junction, instead of 1 A. M. as ordered ; arrived at Bristoe Station 
about 10 A. M., where he remained all day without orders. Banks 
moved on 27th and 28th along the Orange and Alexandria Railroad, in. 



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charge of the army trains, towards Manassas Junction. We frequently 
heard during the 28th that we were about to " bag Jackson." Officers 
and orderlies were ridmg about in every direction giving orders and 
reporting news. Meantime, as seen, General Pope's army was getting 
scattered to the four winds, and every member of it was losing con- 
fidence in the army commander. General McDowell's conduct this day 
(28th) is inexpUcable to the writer, who admits that General McDowell's 
conduct in his presence during this campaign was such as to leave a bad 
impression upon him. but he thinks the true history of this campaign 
should be written, and one of the causes of the failure of General Pope's 
campaign is here given. General Pope has been hardly treated by all 
writers upon his campaign, and General Porter was dismissed. The 
writer's theory of this campaign would relieve General Pope of some of 
the burden for its failure and would show that Porter's actions, what- 
ever they were, had little or no efifect upon the campaign. 

About 9 A. M., August 29th, the Reserve Division was advanced on 
the left of the Warrenton Pike, southerly, to support Sigel's left, Meade's 
First Brigade on the right, Seymour's Second Brigade in centre, and 
Jackson's Third Brigade on left. The First Brigade was sent more 
to the right to support Cooper's battery, and it had some sharp fighting, 
but the Second and Third brigades were not then engaged. The division 
was not advanced far before it was stopped, and the whole division fell 
back a short distance. Again, about 11 a. m., the division advanced in 
line of battle, Tliird Brigade on left, with skirmishers in front ; this 
advance continued tmtil the division was about one mile south of Grove- 
ton. When the advance began the skirmishers covered the division 
front and extended beyond the left, but when the division was halted it 
was closed in mass by regiment ; it was then moved by the left flank, 
probably a quarter of a mile. The Twelfth Regiment was on the 
extreme left. The skirmishers did not follow tliis movement by the left 
flank, and thus, when the division halted, there were no skirmishers 
covering the left. Jxist before halting the Twelfth Regiment crossed a 
fence, which was bordered by brush and trees ; the regiment being 
closed in mass became somewhat disordered crossing this fence ; the 
regiment came out beyond the fence into an open field, where it was 
being reorganized, when a Confederate battery was run up to the crest 
of a hill to the left rear of the regiment, not more than one or two 
hundred yards distant, and fired one round; fortunately for the Twelfth 
Regiment the aim was high, the men instinctively dropped, and the 



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charge struck only the right front corner of tlie regiment, kiUing and 
wounding a small number. Command was instantly given to deploy to- 
the rear, and steps were taken to open fire or charge the battery, when 
orders were received to retire, at the same time the battery limbered up 
and galloped off. Tlie division then moved back to the rear, over 
ground a little south of that it had advanced over, the regiments in 
retiring being deployed at company distance. Soon after the division 
started to the rear the Confederate battery returned to its position and 
commenced firing again. This movement to the rear continued for a 
half mile or more, when the division was halted and here remained some 
time. 

Tlie brigades were moved about during the remainder of the after- 
noon in various directions, but did not again come under fire until about 
sunset. About half an hour before sunset the division advanced in line 
of battle over part of the ground it had been over in the morning, 
Second Brigade on the left. Third Brigade on the right, the First Brigade 
in rear of Third in reserve. When the division approached the enemy's 
position skirmishers were thrown out, and after some little time 
advanced with sharp firing. The division followed. The Third Brigade 
in the latter part of the advance moved down through a com field (tlie 
corn standing) till it reached the bed of a dry run. The enemy were 
visible beyond the rvm. The brigade moved rapidly dovvTi to the run, 
receiving only skirmishers' fire. On the enemy's side of the run the 
bank was steep near the run, and then a gentle slope which continued 
up in open ground to a fence which ran along the front of an extensive 
woods. The division formed in the dry run, then advanced up the 
enemy's side of the run till it came to the crest of the steep part of the 
bank, where it came face to face with the Confederate line of battle. 
In front of the Third Brigade line were two batteries and three lines of 
infantry, one behind the other, all evidently waiting for our troops to 
endeavor to cross the grassy slope, about two hundred feet wide, which 
separated the forces. The division halted before the enemy fired. It 
was evident to every one that there was no chance with a single line of 
battle of carrying this triple line. The men needed no order to lie down, 
but dropped at once on seeing the enemy's lines of infantry behind the 
fence. There was no firing except by skirmishers till our troops reached 
the crest, when the enemy's artillery opened. General Sej mour rode 
ui) on the crest in plain view of the enemy ; one of their batteries sent a 
volley at him, but he remained until he had taken a good view of the 



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enemy's position, when he rode leisurely down tlie hill. One of the 
enemy's guns got a kind of enfilade fire ag.ainst the right of the Twelfth 
Regiment ; one shot undermined a tree against whicli Colonel Hardin 
was leaning, and he fell part way down the hill. This enfilade fire 
becoming serious some of the men endeavored to slip away down the 
hill, whereupon the officers walked up and down the line, thereby 
becoming targets for the enemy's sharpshooters. One shot scraped the 
ear of the Colonel of the Twelfth Regiment. Captain Lucas, of ''C" 
company, evidently saw the sharpshooter who fired this shot, for a 
moment later he cried out " duck. Colonel, duck." The Colonel ducked, 
but not quite soon enough ; the shot hit him in the head, cut away half 
his hat rim and sent the Colonel to gi-ass. 

Seeing there was no chance, with our small force, of carrying the 
enemy's position and hearing nothing of the expected attack of 
Porter's Corps on our left, orders were given to retire, one regiment 
at a time. 

The Sixth Regiment, Colonel Sinclair commanding, moved back in 
beautiful order, by company front; as it retired the enemy's shells made 
an ugly lane through it. The Twelfth Regiment followed the Sixth in 
same manner. The Twelfth had better ground to retire on at first, but 
when it reached the com field the enemy's infantry joined his artillery 
" in letting U9 have it." The regiment walked back, but not at a slow 
walk. The division moved back to the rear of a country road which led. 
from Bald Hill east to a small farm house ; went into camp here just at 
dark. Camp fires had scarcely been lighted when a Confederate battery 
opened on our camp from the vicinity of the little farm house on our 
left. Fires were at once extinguished, but the enemy's battery having- 
got the range continued to fire for an hour or more. This artillery fire 
was very destructive, and the colonel of Twelfth Regiment, wliose 
command was on the left, went over to headquarters of the division, 
which was in the woods near Bald Hill, to endeavor to get his camp 
moved, or to have the enemy's battery looked after. General Reynolds 
was absept after orders. (It would ajipear to have been the principal 
business of a division commander in this campaign to be looking for 
some one to give orders!) The colonel of Twelfth Regiment, in returning 
to his regiment, got between the hostile pickets, but the Egyptian dark- 
ness of the night enabled him to get safely within friendly lines. Thus 
this second unfortunate day ended, as it had begun, by the enemy's 
artillery surprising our left. All our movements this day seemed to be 



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without design, and a study of the official reports seem to confirm the 
opinion then expressed. 

The movements of the other divisions of the Union army were (on 
39th) about as follows: King's division fell back to Manassas Junction, 
and about 7 A. M,, in the absence of General McDowell, was ordered by 
General Pope to join General Porter, who had arrived there about the 
same time from Bristoe Station, and who was ordered to advance toward 
Centerville, Later, King's Division was ordered by General Pope to go 
with General Porter towards Gainesville. General McDowell joined this 
division between 10 A. M. and 12 M. and continued towards Gainesville 
with General Porter. Whilst Generals Porter and McDowell were 
together the noted " joint order " was received. General McDowell had 
come from the direction of Manassas Junction ; he brought with him a 
despatch from General Buford, stating " That seventeen regiments and 
500 cavalry passed Gainesville going east at 8.45 a. m," wliich he showed 
to General Porter. Tliis is satisfactory evidence that the head of Long- 
street's command joined Jackson by 9 A. M., and that Longstreet's entire 
command could have joined by noon. After the receipt of the " joint 
order " Generals McDowell and Porter consulted as to what they should 
do under the terms of the order. "Whilst the consultation was taking 
place General McDowell turned suddenly away and took King's 
Division with •"him. General Porter, his staff and generals, understood 
that General McDowell went off with King's Division to make the con- 
nection between Porter's and Sigel's forces. General McDowell left 
General Porter not later than 3 p. M. He reached Sigel's rear about 
sunset (7 p. M.), about five hoiu's going five miles, all the time in hearing 
of the battle near Groveton. King's Division, under command of General 
Hatch, just at dusk advanced along the WaiTenton Road and attacked 
Hood's troops, who were coming in the opposite direction. A bloody 
contest ensued without advantage to either side. 

If General McDowell had moved promptly with King's Division and 
joined Reynolds' Division (which was attached to his corps) he could 
liave made the connection which Porter expected, the military necessity 
of which was so obvious that it was the topic of conversation all this 
day in Reynolds' Division. Yet, General McDowell, a learned soldier, 
made no effort to make this connection. General McDowell's actions 
this day are inexplicable. General Sigel in his report and testimony 
only stated what was commoji talk in the army. 

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afterwards from the place where King s Division liadthe fighi (of 28th), 
fell back to tlie Orange and Alexandria Railroad at Bristoe, having 
taken this roimdabovit route so as not to interfere with King's Division, 
which retired on the direct road to Manassas Junction. This movement 
of Ricketts threw his division entirely out for the battle of the 29th, and 
left Longstreet and Jackson together. Ricketts' Division moved slowly 
along the Orange and Alexandria Railroad, and finally took the Sudley 
Springs Road, or a road to the east of it, reaching tlie rear of Sigel's 
position late at night. Kearney's Division advanced (29tli) from Center- 
ville, and came in on Sigel's right, attacking several times unsuccess- 
fully with sev'ere loss. Hooker's Division attacked near Kearney's. 
Reno's command attacked near Sigel's centre. Sigel, early on the 291 h, 
advanced against Jackson's position, attacking it at first with his own 
corps; his loft having been outflanked, Reynold's Division was sent to 
this part of the line. Later in the day Kearney, Hooker and Reno came 
to his assistance. Most of the Union attacks were made against that 
part of the Confederate line which rested on tl e unfinished railroad. 
Kearney late in the day attacked the Confederate left, which for ,a time 
"was driven back. 

Banks' Corps, moved along with the trains, was never brought to the 
fighting front. Tlie oflicial (Confederate) reports show that Longstreet's 
troops began to join Jackson at 9 a. m. , and continued arriving until 
noon or a little later. 

The morning of the 30th the Reserve Division was entirely out of 
rations; it was early moved north on the Sudley Springs Road to the 
Warrenton Pike, west on this pike a short distance, then moved up the 
face of Bald Hill, then back on this hill to the woods. About 9 A. M. an 
advance of a part of the division was made, and skirmishers were 
pushed well out on the left side of the pike in the woods, and, being 
reinforced, carried the edge of Groveton; then this advanced part of 
the division was marched back again to Bald Hill, where the division 
remained until noon. 

Shortly after noon the division was formed in column, First 
Brigade leading, and advanced in beautiful shape over the ground 
immediately on the left of the Warrenton Pike, right resting on the pike. 
As we had seen the enemy's batteries throughout the morning, strimg 
along their edge of the woods near Groveton, and extending around to 
their left as far as the open ground extended, and as these batteries had 
a perfectly open and enfilade fire on our division, as it advanced, we 



were certainly astonished at our movement. The enemy watched us, 
but evidently thinking it was a ruse on our part, did not fire. The 
division was soon withdrawn ; the now rear brigade fell back into the 
woods, whilst Cooper's battery was left out in the open ground and 
soon began firing. It was replied to. This movement of the Reserve 
Division appears to have been made to draw attention from Porter's 
attack, which was at tliis time preparing. 

Longstreet held too good a position and was too old a Eoldier to be 
deceived by this movement. IMoreover, he was playing a ruse on his 
part. He was forming his division behind the woods south of Groveton, 
screened by cavalry, preparing for attack on his part. Our skirmishers 
detected his ruse, and told General Reynolds, who went in person and 
verified their reports. He immediately I'ode to General Pope and told 
him that tlie enemy, instead of retreating (as some of General Pope's 
people had thought), was preparing to attack from his right. General 
Pope immediately ordered General Reynolds to post his division to meet 
this attack, and oi'dered General Sigel to send batteries and infantry to 
assist Reynolds. Reynolds posted his division in line of battle in front 
of Bald Hill, extending it to the left. Several of Sigel's batteries were 
sent to Reynokis' left, and McLean's Brigade of Sigel's Corps was placed 
on Reynolds' right, near the "Warreutou Pike. The position was a good 
one with open ground several hundred yards wide in front, woods 
in rear. 

Whilst the division was taking up this new position, General Porter, 
commanding his own corps and two brigades of King's Division, was pre- 
paring to attack Jackson's force along the unfinished railroad, where 
80 many Union attacks had already failed. The withdrawal of t'.ie 
Reserve Division from the advanced position it had taken on the left of 
the "Warrenton Pike leaving Porter's left exposed, he sent Warren's 
Brigade (Fifth and Tenth New York) to occupy this position. Porter 
formed Morrell's Division with its left resting on the pike and its right 
extending into the strip of woods in front of the unfinished railroad, as 
his front line of attack, with Sykes' Division immediately in rear as a 
reserve line. Bang's two brigades were placed on right of Morrell's 
Division. Kearney was to have attacked immediately on King's right, 
but he refused to assault this position, which he had seen attacked so 
often, and moved his division off to the extreme right. Kearney's 
movements caused some delay, but between 3 and 4 p. Ji. Porter's front 
line was advanced. It made a gallant struggle against th;s strong 



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position ; so strong was the assault that Jackson called on Longstreet 
for assistance. 

From our position in front of Bald Hill we could see Porter's left 
brigade. It moved out of the strip of timber and formed a deep column 
fronting Groveton, and advanced rapid'y toward that point. As soon as 
it was clear of tlie woods the Confederate batteries above the unfinished 
railroad, and those along the edge of the woods north of Groveton, 
opened on it, taking it in front and flank. The destruction was terrible, 
but the brigade moved bravely on, even after all organization vas 
destroyed by its losses. Nothing human could reach that timber against 
that front and flank fire. When about midway of the distance from the 
strip of woods from which it started to the woods north of Groveton this 
doomed brigade stopped; it seemed at first as if all had been destroyed, 
but soon the remnants began moving to the rear. Jui-t as this occurred 
the men who had attacked the Confederates near the unfinished rail- 
road through the woods to tlie right, and who had failed to carry the 
position, began to come straggling out of the woods to tlie rear. At the 
same time a force of the enemy, about a brigade, charged in return 
over the same open ground where Porter's left brigade had failed. 
And, at first, it seemed as if this Confederate force would reach the 
strip of woods on our side, the Confederates followed Porter's retreating 
men so closely. 

From our position we could not see what we had in tlie strip of 
woods to oppose the advancing enemy. We could only see one section 
and one battery on our side posted on the crests of the small hills near 
the Warrenton Pike, opposite the strip of woods. When the last of Por- 
ter's retreating men entered the woods and the enemy's advance was 
very near it matters were apparently serious in front of our centre, but 
at this moment the Union guns near the pike opened, every shot mak- 
ing a lane through the Confederate column; still they came on, the rear 
in disarray. The front entered the strip of woods, where it mt t a sheet 
of flame, Sykes' division having been placed here by Porter to meet this 
very case. In a moment the Confederate yell ceased and the column 
stopped, then swayed, then those not disabled started to the rear, and 
this fine brigade, as had the Union on the same ground, left its bravest 
and best dead or dying. 

We were just congratulating ourselves upon the defeat of this return 
attack when orders were received to go to the assistance of Porter's and 
King's troops, many of whom wei*e rapidly moving to the rear on north 



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side of the pike. We demurred to this order, as from our position we 
could see thousands of infantry and many batteries to our right rear, 
north of the pike, who could certainly stop any force coming across the 
wide open space in their front. Whilst we knew our division was 
posted to meet Longstreet's expected attack. General McDowell (who 
was present with us and who was the most excited officer the writer ever 
.saw on a battle field) when he saw Porter's troops retreating ordered 
our division across the pike to cover Porter's withdrawal. As above 
shown, this was unnecessary, Sykes' Division having repulsed the enemy, 
and our division held a position which completely flanked any advance 
the enemy could make immediately north of the pike. Moreover, there 
was the large Union force above mentioned posted immediately north 
of the pike. 

This order of General McDowell's (if General Pope gave the order it 
must have been at General McDowell's request) was not only fatal and 
caused the loss of the battle, but was a great military (tactical) blunder. 
This blunder was seen by us and commented on at the time. 

About the time the division commander received this order to move, 
Lieutenant Chamberlain, aide to General Jackson, commanding the 
Third Brigade, rode up to Colonel Hardin, then in command of the 
Twelfth Regiment, and told hiji that General Jackson had been taken 
suddenly ill. and that General Reyuo.ds desired him to take command 
of the Third Brigade. The division moved off to the right, the First and 
Second brigades, then the division batteries, then the Third Brigade- 
Just as the last battery (Kerns') reached the road, sharp firing was heard 
near Groveton south of the pike. 

Cap'ain Kerns and Colonel Hardin rode rapidly to the crest of a 
small hill south of the pike to see what it was. They both saw Warren's 
men firing sharply and retreating. They agreed at once that Longstreet's 
expected attack was commencing. Kerns said be would bring his bat- 
tery back to the spot where we stood. He did so. Colonel Hardin gal- 
loped backward to the Third Brigade, which was then moving down 
the slope toward the pike, gave the command " Left into line, wheel !'' 
and moved the brigade up to the crest on the left of Kerns' battery, two 
regiments being on the crest and two about one hundred feet in rear. 
Kerns' battery opened on the enemy at once, but WaiTen's retreating 
men, Fifth and Tenth New York (Fifth were Zouaves and could be very 
distinctly seen) interfered with the fire of the brigade. It was, there- 
fore, not as effective at first as it otherwise might have been. The enemy 



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advanced in line down the slope of the next hill west of the Third Bri- 
gade's position. A small strip of woods extended from the larger woods 
on the left at the foot of the hill, between the opposing forces, nearly to 
the pike. 

The enemy advanced without firing till he reached the foot of the 
hill, where he was checked by Kerns' battery, when he moved by his 
right flank to the strip of woods and commenced firing. The enemy's 
fire began slowly to move around towards the left of the Third Brigade. 
He found he could not take the battery in frot.t. His reinforcements 
could be seen moving to liis right. The tiring soon became so hot on 
the left that the left regiment of front line was partly moved to face it ; 
then the second line was ordered to join the first. 

About this time Colonel Warren appeared and placed his retreating 
men in the firing line. The enemy's fire now, both on the front and left 
of the brigade, was terrific. Captain Kerns was killed, and the entire 
personnel of his battery disabled. Colonel Hardin, whilst urging the 
men to hold oa till reinforcements, which he saw coming, could reach 
them, was struck down. The remainder of the battle to the writer is 
pretty much a blank, except he remembers, whilst being carried to the 
rear, meeting Lieutenant Lamborne, cf General Rej'nolds' staff, near 
the pike, not far from the Third Brigade. He gave the writer his small 
flask of brandy (a gift that probably saved his life), which Avould show 
how promptly General Reynolds came to the rescue of the left. The 
Twelfth Regiment came under command of Colonel Baldy , the Third Bri- 
gade came under, first. Colonel Kirk, of the Tenth, who was soon woimded, 
then under Colonel Anderson, of the Ninth (who was so often afterwards 
to bri:^g this brigade out of battle). The Third Brigade, with some of 
Warren's men, held on here till a position was secured to their left rear. 
Milroy's, Towers and other brigades were hurried to the support of the 
Third Brigade. Kerns' battery and the Third Brigade of Reserve divis- 
ion literally threw themselves into the breach without orders. Kerns 
and many noble men sacrificed their lives, and many more of us will go 
maimed to our graves, by reason of a military mistake wdiich ought not 
to have been made. 

No doubt General McDowell promised General Reynolds to replace 
his division, and did try to do so, but time is valuable in the face of the 
enemy and a general must keep his wits in battle. Sigel had no trouble 
in holding his front, and he put nearly his whole force on the left of the 
pike. As they i-eturned to the left rear Reynolds and Meade saw that the 



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enemy was checked near clie south side of the pike, and they knew he 
would push around to the south side of Bald Hill. Thev, therefore, 
hurried their commands along the Sudley Springs Road, back of Bald 
Hill, and met the advancing enemy, as expected. 

When the ammunition of First and Second Brigades, Reynolds' 
Division, was expended they were relieved by Sykes' Division. The 
enemy succeeded in turning Bald Hill, but met such resistance from 
Reynolds' and Sykes' commands near the Henry House as to check his 
farther advance. Night closed the contest. 

This battle was fought mainly by the men under Porters command, 
aided l)y Sigel's. A gallant assault was made by Porter's command upon 
a position that had been so frequently assaulted without success that it 
was a military error to assaidt it again. (Kearney refused ?) Then a most 
bloody and desperate resistance was successfully made to a thoroughly 
prepared assault by more than half of the Confederate army under their 
ablest fighting corps commander. An assavdt that had been foreseen by 
Reynolds, whose careful preparations to meet it were destroyed by 
McDowell. Yet Porter was dismissed and his command abused, Sigel 
and his command abused, whilst McDowell became a major-general in 
the regular army. However, " The mills of the gods grind slowly, but 
they grind exceeding fine.'' History is rectifyirg these matters. Por- 
ter made a long but successful fight, not only for himself but for the 
noble dead of his abused command. The writer has elaborated on this 
campaign for the reason that he hopes political or book generals will 
never in future be given preference over those who have had experience 
in the field. The bickerings and ill feelings which no doubt existed in 
Pope's command should teach this lesson, namely : not to injure the 
feelings of an army, although its commanding general fails to satisfy the 
powers that be. Under no circumstances allow the new commanding 
general to cast reflections upon the troops who are to come under his 
command. 

Heintzelman's Corps, supported by Reno, attacked on the Union 
right, but wliilst assaulting gallantly the enemy held his lef f. During 
the night the Union army was ordered to retire on Centervilie. 

The Reserve Division got together during the night of the oOth on 
the Warrenton Pike whilst en route toCenterville, but not until morning 
did most of the men find their regiments. 

The Confederate army's movements were about as follows : General 
Lee eays : "The victory of Cedar Run efiejtually checked the progress 



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of the enemy for the time, but it soon becamo apparent that Lis army- 
was being largely increased. The corns of General Burnside from North 
Caroina, which had reached Fredericksburg, was reported to have moved 
up the Rappahannock a few days after the battle, to unite with General 
Pope, and a part of McClellan's army was believed to have left Westover 
(Harrison's Landing) for the same purpose. It, therefore, seemed that 
active operations on the James were no longer contemplated, and that 
the most effectual way to reheve Richmond from any danger of attack 
from that quarter would be to reinforce General Jackson and advance 
upon Pope. Accordingly, on August 15th, General Longstreet, with 
his division and two brigades under General Hood, were ordered to pro- 
ceed to Gordonsville. At the same lime General Stuart was directed to 
move with the main body of his cavalry to that point, leaving a suffi- 
cient force to observe the enemy still remaining in Fredericksburg and 
tj guard the railroad. General R. H. Anderson was also directed to 
leave his position on James River and follow Longstreet. On the 16lh 
the troops began to move from the vicinity of Gordonsville toward 
the Rapidan, on the north side of which, extending along the Orange 
and Alexandria Railroad in the direction of Culpeper Court House, the 
Federal army lay in grrat force. It was determint d with the cavalry to 
destroy the railroad bridge over the Rappahannock, in rear of the enemy, 
while Longstreet and Jackson crossed the Rapidan and attacked his flank. 
The movement * * * was appointed for August 18th. * * * Its 
execution was postponed to the 20th. In the interval the enemy, being 
apprised of our design, hastily retired beyond the Rappahannock. Gen- 
eral Lcngstreet crossed the Rapidan at Raccoon Ford and preceded by 
General Fitz Lee's cavalry brigade, arrived early in the afternoon near 
K'lly's Ford on the Rappahannock, where Lee had a sharp skirmish 
with the rear guard of the enemy, who held the north side of the liver 
in strong force. Jackson passed the Rapidan at Somerville Ford and 
moved toward Brandy Station; a large body of the enemy's cavalry was 
encountered. * * * General Jackson halted for the night at Stevens- 
burg, and on the morning of the 21st moved upon Beverly Ford on tho 
Rappahannock. * * * As our positions on the south bank of the Rap- 
pahannock were commanded by those of the enemy, who guarded all 
the fords, it was determined to seek a more favorable place to cross 
higher up the river, and thus gain the enemy's right. Accordingly Gen- 
eral Longstreet was directed to leave Kelly's Ford on the 21st and take 
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the Orange and Alexandria Railroad bridge, then held by Jackson, in 
order to mayk the movement of the latter, who was instructed to ascend 
the river. On 22d Jackson crossed Hazel Run at Welford's Mill and 
proceeded up the Rappahannock, leaving Trimble's Brigade near 
Freeman's Ford, to protect his trains. In the afternoon Longstreet 
sent Hood, with his own and Whiting's brigade, under Colonel Law, to 
relieve Trimble. Hood had just reached the position when he and 
Trimble were attacked by a considerable force which had crossed at 
Freeman's Ford " CBuford aided by Sigel). "* * * General Jackson 
arrived at the Warrenton Springs Ford in the afternoon and immedi- 
ately began to cross his troops to the north side, occupying the springs 
and neighboring heights. * * * He was interrupted by rain and 
ordered to withdraw. 

" * * * General Stuart, who had been directed to eut the railroad 
in the rear of General Pope's army, crossed the Rappahannock on the 
morning of the 22d, about six miles above the springs, with parts of 
Lee's and Robinson's brigades. Passing through Warrenton he reached 
Catletfs Station at night, but was prevented from destroying the rail- 
road bridge at that point by the same storm that had arrested Jackson's 
movements. * * * He retired after firing the enemy's camp, and 
recrossed the Rappahannock at Warrenton Springs. * » * The rise 
of the river rendering the lower fords impassable enabled the enemy 
to concentrate his main body oppDsite Jackson, and Longstreet on the 
24th was ordered to proceed to his support. * * * He (Longstreet) 
reached Jeflersonton in the afternoon. * * * The enemy was massed 
between Warrenton and the springs. * * * The army of McClellan 
had left Westover ; part of it it had already marched to join General 
Pope, and it was rei)orted the rest would soon follow. 

The captured correspondence of General Pope confirmed this infor- 
mation and also disclosed the fact that the greater part of the army of 
General Cox had been withdrawn from the Kanawha Valley for the 
sime i^urj^ose." (Lee tlius knew he was safe in resting his rear on 
the Shenandoah Valley.) "Two brigades of General D. H. Hill's 
Division under General Ripley had already been ordered from Richmond, 
and the remainder under General D. H. Hill in person with the division 
of General McLaws, two brigades under General Walker and Hampton's 
Brigade of cavalry, were now directed to join tliis army and were now 
approaching. 

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was directed on the 25th to cross above Waterloo and move around the 
enemy's right, so as to strike the Orange and Alexandria Railroad in his 
rear. Longstreet * * * was to divert liis attention by threatening 
him in front, and to follow Jackson as soon as the latter should be suffi- 
ciently advanced. Jackson crossed the Rappahannock at Hinsou's Mill, 
about four miles above Waterloo, and passing through Orleans encamped 
on night of 2oth, near Salem, after a long and fatiguing marcb. 

The next morning, continuing his route with his accustomed vigor 
and celerity, he passed the Bull Run Mountains at Thoroughfare Gap 
and proceeding by the way of Gainesville, reached the railroad at Bris- 
toe Station after sunset. At Gainesville he was joined by General Stuart 
with the brigades of Robertson and Lee, who continued with him dur- 
ing the rest of his operations, vigilantly and effectually guarding both 
his flanks. 

Thus far no considerable force of the enemy had been encountered, 
and he did not appear to be aware of his situation. * * * General 
Trimble volunteered to proceed at once (on 26th) to that place " (Manas- 
sas Junction), "with Twenty-First North Carolina and Twenty-First 
Georgia. * * * 

^ General Stuart was ordered to accompany him with part of his 
cavalry and to take command. * * * About midnight the place 
(Manassas Junction) was taken. * * * 

General Jackson left Ewoll's Division with Fifth Virginia Cavalry 
at Bristoe Station, and with the rest of the command proceeded to the 
junction, where he arrived early in the mornmg. Soon afterwards a 
considerable force of the enemy under General Taylor approached 
from the direction of Alexandria and pushed forward boldly to recap- 
ture the stores that had been lost. After a sharp engagement the enemy 
was routed and driven back, leaving his killed and wounded on the 
field. General Taylor being himself mortally wounded during the pur- 
suit. The troops remained at Manassas the rest of the day, supplying 
themselves with everything they reciuired from the captured stores. 

In the afternoon the enemy " (Hooker's Division) "'advanced upon 
General Ewell at Bristoe from the direction of Warrentown Junction. 
They were attacked by three regiments and the batteries of Ewell's 
Division, and two columns of not less than a brigade each were broken 
and repulsed. Their places were soon supplied by fresh troops, and it 
was apparent that the Federal commander had now become aware of 
the situation of affairs, and had turned upon Jackson with his whole 



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force." (Hooker's attack created a strong impression.) "* * * Ewell 
withdrew his comniaud * * * aud rejoined Jackson at Manassas 
Junction, first destroying the railroad bridge over Broad Run. The 
enemy halted at Bri^toe. General Jackson's force being much inferior 
to that of General Pope, it became necessary for him to withdraw from 
Manassas and take a position west of the turnpike road from Warrenton 
to Alexandria, where he could more readily unite with the approaching 
column of Longstreet. * * * Taliaferro's Division moved during the 
night by the road to Sudley, and, crossing the turnpike near Groveton, 
halted on the west side, near the battlefield of July 21, 1861, where it 
was joined on 28th by divisions of Hill and Ewell. Perceiving, during 
the afternoon (28th), that the enemy approaching from the direction of 
Warrenton was moving down the pike toward Alexandria, thus expos- 
ing his left flank. General Jackson advanced to attack him. A fierce 
and sangTiinary conflict ensued, which continued until about 9 P. M., 
when the enemy slowly fell back and left us in possession of the field. 
The loss on both sides was heavy, and among our wounded were Major- 
General Ewell and Brigadier-General Talliaferro, the former severely. 
The next morning (29th) the enemy had taken a position to inter- 
pose his army between General Jackson and Alexandria, and about 10 
A. M." (about daylight?) "opened with artillery on right of Jackson's 
line. The troops of the latter were disposed in rear of Groveton, along 
the line of the unfinished branch of the Manassas Gap Railroad, and 
extended from a point a short distance west of the turnpike toward 
Sudley Mill, Jackson's Division, under General Starke, being on the 
right; Swell's, under Lawton, in the centre, and A. P. Hill's on the left. 
The Federal army was evidently concentra' ing upon Jackson, with the 
design of overwhelming him before the arrival of Longstreet. 

The latter oflicer left his position opj^osite Warrenton Springs ou 
'26th, being relieved by General R. H. Anderson's Division, and marched 
to join Jackson. He crossed at Hinson's Mills in the afternoon and 
encamped near Orleans that night. The next day he reached the White 
Plains; his march was retarded for want of cavalry to ascertain mean- 
ing of certain movements of the enemy " (Buford's cavalry), "from the 
direction of Warrenton, which seemed to menace the right flank of Ms 
column. On 28th, arriving at Thoroughfare Gap, he found, the enemy 
prepared to dispute his passage. * * * The enemy held the eastern 
extremity of the pass in large force" (Rickett's Division). '•» * * Hood, 
with two brigades, and Wilcox, with three, were ordered to turn the ene- 



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my's riglit, the former moving over the mountain by a narrow path to 
he left of the pass, and the latter farther to the north by Hopewell Gap. 
* * * He (the enemy) kept up an active artillery fire until dark, and 
then retired. General Jones (with his division) and Wilcox bivouacked 
that night east of the mountains, and on the morning of the 29th the 
whole command resumed the march, the sound of cannon at Manassas 
announcing that Jackson was already engaged. 

Longsfcreet entered the pike near Gainesville, and, moving down 
toward Groveton, the head of his column came upon the field in rear of 
the enemy's left. * * ^- He immediately placed some of his batteries 
in position. * * * Longstreet took j)osition on the r'ght of Jackson, 
Hoods two brigades, supported by Evans, being deployed across the 
turnpike and at right angles to it. Thesa troops were supported on the 
left by three brigades under Wilcox and by a like force on the right 
under Kemper. D. R. Jones' Division formed the extreme right of the 
line, resting on the Manassas Gap Railroad. The cavalry guarded our 
right and Ic ft flanks, that on the right under General Stuart in person. 
After the arrival of Longstreet the enemy changed his position and 
began to concentrate opi'osite Jackson's left. * * * Colonel Walton 
placed a part of his artillery upon a commanding position between the 
lines of Generals Longstreet and Jackson by the order of tlie former 
and engaged the enemy vigorously for several hours." (These batteries 
or those that replaced them repulsed the left of Porter's attack on 
30th.) * * * 

'• Soon afterward General Stuart reported the approach of a large 
force from the direction of Bristoe Station, threatening Longstreet's 
right. The brigades under General Wilcox were sent to reinforce 
General Jones, but no serious attack was made, and after firing a few 
shots the enemy withdrew. While this demonstration was being made 
on our riglit a large force advanced to assail left of Jackson's position 
occupied by the division of A. P. Hill. * * * The enemy "' (Kearney) 
" was repeatedly repulsed, but again pressed on to the attack with fresh 
troops. Once he succeeded in penetrating an interval between General 
Gregg's Brigade, on the exneme left, and General Thomas", but was 
quickly driven back. * * * The contest was close and obstinate, tlie 
combatar.ts sometimes delivering their fire at ten paces. While the 
battle was raging on Jackson's .'eft. General Longstreet ordered Hood 
and Evans to advance; but, before the order could be obeyed, Hood was 
liimself attacked. * ■* * General Wilcox was recalled from the 



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right and ordered to advance on Hood's left. * * * The enemy was? 
repulsed after a severe contest." (Hatch's, late King's, Division attack 
at sunset.) " * * * Our lo^s was severe m this engagement. 

* * * On the morning of the 3flth the enemy again advanced, and 
skirmishing began along the line. The trooiis of Jackson and Long- 
street maintained their positions of the previous day. 

* * * R. H. Anderson's Division, which arrived during the fore- 
noon, was held in reserve near the turnpike. The batteries of Colonel 
S. D. Lee took the position occupied the day before by Colonel Walton 
and engaged the enemy actively until noon, when firing ceased and all 
was quiet for several hours. About 3 p. M. the enemy, having massed 
his troops in front of Jackson, advanced against his position in strong 
force. His front line pushed forward until engaged at close quarters by 
Jackson's troops, when its progress was checked and a fierce and bloody 
struggle ensued, A second and third line of great strength was moved 
up to support the first, but in doing so came within easy range of a 
position a little in advance of Longstreet's left. He immediately 
ordered up two batteries, and two others being thrown forward about 
the same time by Colonel Lee, under their well-directed and destructive 
fire the supporting lines were broken and fell back in confusion. 

* * * General Longstreet, anticipating the order for a general 
advance, now threw his whole command against the Federal centre 
and left. Hood's Brigade, closely followed I y Evans', led the attack, 
R. H. Anderson's Division came gallantly to the support of Hood, while 
the three brigades under Wilcox moved forward on his left and those 
of Kemper on his right. D. R. Jones advanced on the extreme right, 
and the whole line swept steadily on, driving the enemy with great 
courage from each successive position until 10 P. M., when darkness put 
an end to the battle and the pursuit. During the latter part of the 
engagement General Wilcox, with his own brigade, was ordered to the 
right, where the resistance of the enemy was most obstinate. * * * 
The obscurity of night and the uncertainty of the fords of Bull Run ren- 
dered it necessary to suspend operations until morning, when the cav- 
alry * * * discovered that the enemy had escaped to the strong 
position of Centerville. * * * 

Longstreet remained on the battlefield to engage the attention of 
the enemy, * * * while Jackson jiroceeded by Sudley Ford to the 
Little River Turnpike to turn the enemy's right and interrupt his retreat 
to Washington. * * * He reached Little River Turnpike in the 



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evening, and the uext day (September 1) advanced by that road 
toward Fah-fax Court House. The enemy, in the meantime, was falling 
back rapidly toward Washington, and had thrown out a strong force 
to Germantown. * * * The advance of Jackson's column encoun- 
tered the enemy at Ox Hill, near Germantown, about 5 P. M. Line of 
battle was formed at once, and two brigades of A. P. Hill's Division 
* * * were thrown forward to attack. * * * Tliey were subse- 
quently supported by the brigades of Gregg, Tliomas and Pender, all 
of Hill's Division, which, with part of Ewell's, became engaged. The 
contest was obstinately maintained until dark. * * * Longsti-eet 
arrived after the action was over. * * * Our army rested during 
the 2d, near Chantilly. * * * In the series of engagements on the 
plains of Manassas 7,000 prisoners were taken, in addition to about 
2,000 wounded left in our hands. Thirty pieces of artillery, upwards of 
20,000 small arms, etc., were captured." 

General Pope in his report says : " The attack of Porter" (on 30th) 
*' was neither vigorous nor persistent, and his ti'oops soon retired in 
considerable confusion." 

The following is from the report of the Board ordered to examine 
the Porter case (Generals Schofield, Terry and Getty) : " As Longstreet's 
army pressed forward to sti'ike Pope's exjwsed left wing and flank, 
Warren, with his little brigade, sprang into the gap and breasted the 
storm until but a handful of brave men were left alive." (Our Third 
Brigade and Kerns' battery supported Warren without orders.) "Then 
Sykes with his disciplined regulars, and Reynolds with his gallant 
Pennsylvania Reserves, seized the commanding ground in the rear, and, 
like a rock, withstood the advance of the victorious enemy and saved 
the Union army from rout." The above, as well as the long extracts 
from General Lee's report, are given in answer to General Pope's 
remark in his report of the campaign, derogatory to the fighting of 
Porter's command. 

" Early in the night of the battle the Reserve Corps marched toward 
Centervi le and bivouacked on the east bank of Cub Run, and on the 
following morning it proceeded to Centerville. Never were the men of 
this division in more straitened circumstances. There had been no 
proper and full rations issued since the 24th of the month. * * * 
For two days the men had subsisted on green fruit and herbs snatched 
by the wayside, and had been sustained more by the fierce excitement 
of battle than by physical strength. At 10 A. M. (}he division was led 



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down the pike two milts from Centerville, where the regiments were 
halted and a small quantity of (lofTee and hard bread were distributed. 

* * * In the afternoon the division marched back to Centerville, and 
there received rations of salt beef. It then marched back to Cub Run 
to relieve Reno's troops, who were guarding the crossing of this stream. 

* * * A heavy rain set in and the night was dark and dreary." 

The further movements of the army are given in General Pope's 
report as follows: "The enemy during Monday again began to work 
slowly around to our right fc^r the purpose of passing Fairfax Court 
House, and thus turnin.;^ our rear. Couch's Division and one brigade 
of Sumner's had been left there, and I sent over Hooker on ]\Ionday 
afternoon to take command and to post them at or in front of German- 
town, at the same time directing McDowell to take position along the 
turnpike from Centerville to Fairfax Court House, about two miles 
west of the latter place. Hetntzelman was directed to post himself in 
rear and support Reno, who was pushed north of the road, at a point 
two and a half miles east of Centerville, to cover the turnpike. * * * 
Late in the afternoon of Monday the enemy made his demonstrations 
upon Germautown, but was met by Hooker at that place, and by Reno, 
reinforced by Kearney, farthtr west. The battle was very severe, 
though short. * * * Kearney and Stevens killed. By morning the 
whole of my command was massed behind Difficult Creek, between 
Flint Hill and the Warrenton Turni)ike, with the advance under Hooker 
at Germantown." 

Sypher says: "The retirement of the troops was commenced on 
the afternoon of the 2d, and by sundown of the 4th the combined forces 
of the three armies were posted behind the defences around the Capitol. 

Retiring with McDowell's Corps, General Reynolds marched his 
division on the evening of the 2d on Alexandria and Columbia Pike, to 
the vicinity of Hunter's Chapel and Arlington, and on the afternoon of 
the 4th encamped north of Munson's Hill." 

Casualties in Twelfth Regiment — Captain Schelling and Lieutenant 
Weber and Colonel Hardin wounded ; 5 men kUled, 35 men wounded; 
Lieutenant Cloyd and 23 men missing. 

Wherever the Twelfth Regiment is not specially mentioned its 
movements were the same as the Third Brigade or the division. It did 
its bhare of picket duty and skirmishing during the campaign, but the 
lack of a daily diary prevents the writer from attempting to give the 
daily duties of the regiment. Part of it under Captain Gustin rein- 



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forced the Bucktails on skirmish south of Groveton the morning of 
August 30. These skirmishers had great difficulty in returning to the 
command — probably some were taken prisoners. 



CHAPTER X. 

SOUTH MOUNTAIN, ANTIETAM AND FREDERICKSBURGH. 

Whilst the Reserve Division rested at Munson's Hill many men, 
who had been absent for various causes from the division during Pope's 
campaign rejoined, and thus the division started in this campaign 
stronger than it was when it joined Pope's army. 

On the 7th day of September the Reserve Corps, as a division of the 
First Army Corps, General Reynolds commanding the division. General 
Hooker the corps, and General McClellan the re-organized army, 
marched from its camp near Munson's Hill, crossed the Potomac on 
Long Bridge, and thence marching through the streets of Washing- 
ton encamped on Meridian Hill. On the following day, new clothes 
and a fresh supply of rations were issued to the men, and the divi- 
sion moved forward to a point near Brookville, in Maryland, where 
it encamped for two days. From Bi-ooKvUle it marched on the road 
towards Frederick, and on the night of the 12th encamped beyond 
New Market, near Monccacy Creek. Govei-nor Curtin, believing the 
enemy would invade Pennyslvania, called out 75,000 militia. General 
Reynolds was, at the request of the Governor, assigned to command of 
the Pennsylania militia; he was succeeded in command of the division 
by General Meade, the First Brigade being commanded by Colonel Magil- 
ton, the Second by General Seymour, and the Third by Colonel Gal- 
lagher, of the Eleventh; Third Brigade, composed of Ninth, Lieutenant- 
Colonel Anderson; Tenth, Colonel Warner; Eleventh, Lieutenant- 
Colonel Jackson ; and Twelfth, Captain Gustin. 

On the 13th the division crossed the Monocacy, and during the 
afternoon camped on the western bank. 

The movements of the army of the Potomac after McClellan 
relieved Pope were, as described by McClellan, as follows : 

" Having made the necessary arrangements for the defence of the 
city (Washington) in the new condition of things, I pushed forward 
the First and Ninth Corps, under Hooker and Reno, forming the right 



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wing, under General Burnside, to Leesborough on the 5th ; thence the 
First Corps by Brookville, Cooksville, acd Ridgeville, to Frederick ; and 
the ^^inth Coi-ps by Damascus, on New Market and Frederick ; the 
Second Corps and tlie Eleventh (Twelfth) under General Sumner and 
Williams, on the 6th were moved from Tennallytown to Rcckville, 
thei.ce by Middietown and Urbana on Frederick, the Eleventh (Twelfth) 
moving by a lateral road between Urbana and New Market, thus main- 
taining the communications between the centre and right wing, as well 
as covering the direct road to Washington. The Sixth Corps, under 
General Franklin, was moved to Darnstown nn the Gth, thence by 
Dawsonville and Barnsville on Buckeyestown, covering the road from 
the mouth of the Monccacy to Rockville, and being in position to con- 
nect with and support the centre should it have been necessary (as was 
supposed) to force the line of the Monocacy. Couch's Division was thrown 
forward to Offuts Cross Roads and Poolesville by the River Road, thus 
covering that approach, watching the fords of tlie Potomac, and ulti- 
mately following and supporting the Sixth Corps. 

The object cf these movements was to feel the enemy, to compel 
him to develop his intentions at the same time that the troops were in 
position to cover Washington, or Baltimore, to attack him should he 
hold the line of the Monccacy, or to follow him into Pennsylvania if 
necessary."' 

On the 12th a portion of the right wing entered Frederick, after a 
brisk skirmish at the outskirts of the city and in its streets. On the 
13th the main bodies of the right wing and centre passed through 
Frederick. On the 13th the advance, consisting of Pleasanton's cav- 
alry and horse artillery, after some skirmishing, cleared the passage 
over the Cotoctin Hills, leaving no serious obstruction to the the move- 
ment of the main body, until the base of the South Mountain range was 
reached. On the afternoon of the 13th General McClellan obtained 
General Lee's order of march, which, it is supposed, was lost by one of his 
generals, being found in an abandoned camp. At first General McClel- 
lan may have thought this order was a trick to get him far away from 
Washington, and thus enable Lee to get between his army and Wash- 
ington, south of the Potomac, this move on Lee's part being greatly 
apprehended by General Halleck. A few hours after obtaining this 
order, the cavalry reports confirming the movements of the enemy 
directed by it, McClellan concluded to act upon the information thus 
obtained. His orders were correct, except that he did not require the 



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movements to be made at once, deferring all movements until the next 
day. McClellan might by a niglit march have prevented the battle cf 
South Mountain from taking place, and have caused Lee's left wing to 
hasten over the river to join Jackson, but with Lee's fine body of cav- 
alry, so ably commanded, there was little chance for so large an army 
as McClellan's to have reached any part of Lee's main force without his 
being prepared for it. Military cri ics who think McClellan ought to 
have captured or destroyed a large part of the Confederate army at 
this time, write without due consideration of the conditions of the two 
armies. In fact, it never was pos-ible for either the Army of Northern 
Virginia, when strongest, as during the seven days on the Peninsula, 
or the Army of the Potomac, when nearly, if not quite double the 
strength of the Confederate, as it was under Grant, to capture or des- 
troy its opponent. 

It is believed that any army acting on the defensive, armed with 
modern weapons, if properly handled and fought, can hold its own 
against one of very nearly, if not quite double, its strength. 

McClellan's orders after receiving Lee's order were for Franklin to 
move at daylight of the 14th by Jeffersonton and Burkettsville, upon 
the road to Rohrersville, to cut off McLaw's Conf^ derate Division ; the 
whole of Burnside's command was ordered to march the evening of the 
13th and early on the 14th, to be followed by the corps of Sumner and 
Banks and Sykes' Division on Boonesborough, to carry that position. 
General Franklin's advance arrived at Burkettsville about noon, to find' 
Crampton's Pass held by the enemy. Slocum's Division of Franklin's 
command was formed on the right of the road and Smith's on the left. 
Bartlett's and Torbert's brigades, supported by Newton, advanced 
steadily, the enemy was driven from his position at the base cf the 
Mountain, where he was protected by a stone wall, and forced back iip 
the slope until he reached his battery, pcsted in the road, well up the 
Mountain. He made a stand here, but was forced to retire, which he 
did by retiring his artillery in echelon and contesting the ground to the 
crest. Brooke's and Irwin's brigades, of Smith's Division covering 
Slocum's flank, moved up the Mountain on the left of the road, driving 
the enemy before them until the crest was reached. Four hundred (400) 
prisoners from seventeen organizations, one piece of artillery and three 
colors were cap*ured in this brilliant advance. Franklin's commnnd 
continued to advance until it reached Pleasant Valley, being within 
four miles of Maryland Heights that night, where lie could have con- 



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nectcd with the Union force at these heights had it not been previously 
withdrawn. While the events which have just l)een described were 
taking place at Cranipton's Gap, the troops of the centre and right wing 
were contending for the possession of Turner's Gap. 

" On the morning of the 13th General Pleasanton was ordered to 
send McReynokls' Brigade and a section of artillery in the direction of 
Gettysburgh," (it will be seen that this was a noticeable point) "and 
Rush's Regiment toward Jefferson to communicate with Franklin, and 
(Pleasanton) was to proceed with the remainder of his force in the direc- 
tion of Middletovvn. He reached Turner's Gap of the South Mountain 
ill the afternoon, and found the enemy in force. 

He sent back for infantry to General Burnside, who had been 
directed to support him. * * * The South Mountain is at this point 
about one thousand feet high, and its general direction is from north- 
east to southwest. The National Road from Frederick to Hagtrstown 
crosses it neaily at right angles at Turner's Gap, a depression seme four 
hundred feet deep. The Mountain on the north side of the pike is^ 
divieled into two crests or ridges by a narrow valley, which, though 
deep at the pass, becomes a slight depression at about a mile to the 
north. 

There are two country roads, one to the right of the pike, the other 
i<) the left, which give accefs to the crests overlooking the main road. 
The oi-e on the left, called ' The Old Sharpsburgh Road,' is nearly 
parallel to and about a half-mile distance from the pike, until it 
reaches the crest of the Mountain, where it leads off to the left. Tlie 
other road, called ' The Old Hagerstown Read,' passes up a ravine in 
the Mountain, about a mile from the pike, and leading to the left over 
and along the crest, enters the pike at the Mountain House, near the 
summit of the pass. 

* * * On the 14th General Pleasanton continued his reconnois- 
sance ; Gibson's battery, and afterwards Benjamin's, of Reno's Corps, 
was placed on high grounel on the left of the pike, and obtained a 
direct fire on the enemy in the Gap. 

Cox's Division, which had been ordered up to support Pleasanton , 
left its bivouac near Middletown, at 6 a. m. The First Brigade reached 
the scene of action about 9 a. m. , an el was sent on the old Sharpsburgh 
Road by General Pleasanton to feel the enemy, and ascertain if he held 
the crest on that side in strong force. This was soon found to be the 
case, and General Cox having an-iveel with the other brij^ade, and infeir- 



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mation having been received from General Reno that the column vi'ould 
be supported by the whole corps, the division was ordered to 
assault the position. Two twenty-pounders of Simmon's battery, and 
two sections of McMullins' were Itf t in rear near the i^ike, and did good 
service all day. Colonel Scammon s Brigade was deployed, moved up 
the slope to the left of the road, with object of turning the enemy's 
right. It gained the crest and, supported by Crook's Brigade, retained 
its position against repeated assaults until noon. 

There was now a lull for t^vo hours, wliilst Union troops continued 
arriving. "Wilcox's Division came up first; it was moved about to 
several positions, and finally put on right of the old Sharpsburgh 
Road. Crook had moved up some guns near the cresi ; as Wilcox was 
coming into position, the enemy opened with a battery close to his 
right, creating a sort of panic there and alnost took Crook's guns, but 
the Seventy-]^ inth New York and Seventeenth Michigan rallied to their 
defence. Burnside now directed Rcr.o to move upSturgis' and Rod- 
man's divisions to support Cox and Wilcox. Sturgis' Division arrived 
at 3.30 P. M., and was formed in rear of Wilcox ; Rodman's was divided, 
Colonel Fairchild's Brigade was placed on the extreme left and Colonel 
Harland's on the right. 

After it was ascertained that General Hooker's command on right 
of the main road was well advanced, a general advance on the left of 
the main road was ordered. The enemy made a desperate resistance, 
counter charging the Union lines, but were everywhere driven back. 
The fighting on the left of main road continued till 9 to 10 P. M. 
General Reno was killed in this advance. Wilcox's Division suffered 
the principal loss. 

Hooker's Corps reached the Cotoctin about 1 P. M., having left 
the vicinity of the Monocacy that morning. 

About 1 P.M. General Meade's Division (the Reserves) was ordered to 
make a diversion in favor of Reno, in accordance with the following 
order ; " General Hooker; General Reno requests that a division of 
your's may move up on the right of the main road. General McClellan 
desires you to comply with this request, holding your whole corps in 
readiness to support the movement, and taking charge of it yourself. 
Sumner's and Bank's corps have commenced arriving. Let General 
McClellan be informed as soon as you commence your movement." 

Meade's Division (the Reserves) left Cotoctin Creek about 2 p. M., and 
turned off to the right from the main road on tlie old Hagerstown 



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Road leading to IMotiut Tabor Church, where General Hooker was, and 
deploye 1 a short distance in advance, its rij^hfc renting about one and a 
half miles from the pike. The enemy fired a few shots from a battery on 
the Mountain side, but did no considerable dama-e. Cooper's battery 
was placed in position on high ground about 3.30 p. m., and fire^ at the 
enemy on the slope, but soon ceased, by order of General Hooker, and 
the position of our lines prevented any further use of artillery on this 
part of the field. The First Massachusetts Cavah-y was sent up the val- 
ley to the right to observe the movements of the enemy in that direc- 
tion, and one of Meade's regiments was posted to watch a road coming 
in the same direction. The other divisions of Hooker's Corps were 
deployed as they came up, Hatch's to the left, and Ricketts', which 
arrived at 5 P. M., in rear. "Gibbon's Brigade was detached from 
Hatch's Division by General Burnside, for the purpose of making a 
demonstration on the enemy's centre up the main road, as soon as the 
movements on the right and left had sufficiently progressed." 

The First Pennsylvania Rifles (Bucktails), of Seymour's Brigade, 
were sent forward as skirmishers to feel the enemy ; it was found he 
was in force. Meade was then directed to advance his division to the 
right of the road (old llagerstown Road) so as to outflank him, if possible, 
and then to move forward and attack, while Hatch was directed to take 
with his division the crest on the left of the old Hagerstown Road, 
Rickett's Division lo be held in reserve. Seymour's Brigade was sent up 
to the top of the slope on the right of the ravine through which the 
road runs ; it then moved along the summit parallel to the road, while 
Colonel Gallagher's and Colonel Magilton's brigades moved in the same 
direction along the slope and in the ravine. The ground was of the most 
difficult character for the movements of troops, the hillside very steep 
and rocky, and obstructed by stone walls and timber. The enemy was 
very soon encountered, and in a short time the action became general 
along the whole front of the division. The Ime advanced steadily up the 
Mountain side where the enemy was posted behind trees and rocks, from 
which he was gradually dislodged. During this advance Colonel Gal- 
lagher, of Eleventh, commanding the Third Brigade, was severely 
wounded, and the command devolved upon Lieutenant-Colonel Ander- 
son. 

General Hooker, reporting this action, says : "In front of us was 
South Mountain, the crest of the spiral ridge of which was held by the 
enemy in considerable force. Its slopes were precipitous, rugged, and 



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wooded, and difficult of ascent to an infantry in force, even in the 
absence of a foe in front. The National Pike crosses the summit of this 
range through a gentle depression, and near this point a spur projects 
from the body of the ridge, and running nearly i-arallel with it about a 
mile, when it is abruptly cut by a rivulet from the main ridge, and 
rising again and extends far to the northward. At and to the north of 
the pike this spur is separated from the main ridge by a narrow valley, 
with cultivated fields extending well up the gentle slope of the hUl on 
each side. Here the enemy had a strong infantry force posted, and a 
few pieces of artillery. Through the break in the spur at the base of 
the principal ridge were o her cleared fields, occupied by the enemy. 
* * * 

As soon as these dispositions were made," (heretofore described) 
" and from my observations," (General Hooker being on a good point to 
see the whole field of battle) " anticipating no important sequence from 
the attack to the touth cf the pike, it was resolved to move to the assault 
at once, which was commenced with throwing forward a heavy body of 
skirmishers along my whole line, and directions were given for Meade 
and Hatch to support them with their divisions. Meade moved forward 
with great vigor, and scon became engaged, driving everything before 
him ; every step of his advance was resisted stubbornly by a numerous 
enemy, and, besides, he had great natural obstacles to overcome, which 
impeded his advance but did not check it. From its great elevation and 
the dense smoke which rose over the top of the forest, the progress of 
the battle on this part of the field was watched with anxious interest 
for miles around, and while it elicited the applause of the spectators, 
they could not fail to admire the steadintss, resolution and courage of 
the brave officers and men engaged." (Hooker evidently regrets his 
remarks about this division on the Peninsula). '' Ar tliis moment 
word was received that the enemy were attempting to turn Meade's 
right, when Duryea's Brigade of Ricketts' Division was dispatched to 
thwart it, and reached there in good time to render substantial aid in 
this, and also to assist their comrades in crowning the summit with our 
arms. This was taken possession of in fine style between sundown and 
dark, * * * the battle was won. From liere we threatened the 
retreat of the rebels posted between the main ridge and the spur of the 
mountain, while it commanded the pike on both sides of the mountain. 
On reaching the summit, Meade was ordered to hold it until further 
orders." 



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McClellaa's report of same action says : "General Meade speaks 
tighly of General Seymour's skiJ iu handling his brigade on the right. 
* " * While General Meade was gallantly driving the enemy on the 
right, General Hatch's Division was engaged in a severe contest for the 
possession of the crest on the loft of the ravine. It moved up t!ie moun- 
tain in the following order : two regiments of Patrick's Brigade, dei)loyed 
as skirmishers, Avith his other two regiments in support. Colonel Phelp's 
Brigade in line of battalions in mass, and General Doubk day's Brigade 
in same order in rear ; the Twenty-first New York (as skirmishers) hav- 
ing gone straight up instead of around the slope, the Second New York, 
as skirmishers, were sent in its j)lace." These three brigades, afterwards 
reiuforced by Colonel Christian's Brigade of Ricketts' Division, 
advanced well up tJie hill, under severe fire. Finally Hartsuff's Brigade 
came up to fill an interval between Hatch's Division and Meade's, and 
then the whole line held their position near the crest all night. 

Late in the afternoon General Gibbon with his brigade and one sec- 
tion of Gibbon's battery (B. 4, U. S.) was ordered to move up the main 
road on the enemy's cen' re. He advanced a regiment on each side of 
the road, preceded by skirmishers and followed by his other two regi- 
ments in double column, the artillery in the road. Gibbon advanced 
near to the crest under heavy fire, losing many men, but held his ground 
until relieved by Gorman's Brigade. The Second and Twelfth Corps 
reached their final positions sion after dark, Richardson's Division, near 
Mt. Tabor Church, Twelfth Corps and Sedgwick's Division bivouacked 
around Bolivar. Sykes' Division and the Artillery Reserve at Middle- 
town, General Hatch was wounded in the last advance. At daylight 
skirmishers were advanced, who found the enemy had retreated, leaving 
Ms dead and severely wounded behind. 

Cobb's, Semmes' and Mahone's brigades of McLaws' (Confederate) 
Division held Crampton's Gap, whilst D, H. Hill's Division, consisting 
of Garland's, Colquitt's, G. B. Anderson's and Ripley's brigades, and 
Hosser'd command of cavalry and artillery, held Turner's Gap; this latter 
appears to have been the force opposed to Burnside till about the time 
of Hooker's attack on the right, when Longstreet's command had 
arrived. D. R.Jones' division, consisting of brigadesof Pickett, Kemper, 
Jenkins and Evans, were in Hooker's front. Hood's Division, consist- 
of his own, Whiting's, Dayton's and D. R. Jones' (own) brigades were 
on Confederate right, opposite to Burnside's command. 

General Lee says: "The battle continued with great animation 



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until night. On the south of the turnpike the enemy was driven back 
some distance, and his attack on the centre repulsed with loss. His 
grtat superiority iu numbers enabled him to extend beyond both our 
flanks. By this means he succeeded in reaching the summit of the 
mountain beyond our left, and, pressing upon us heavily from that 
direction, gradually forced our troops back after an obstinante resist- 
ance. Darkness put an end to the contest." Lee furtlier says in his 
report : " It was determined to retire to Sharpsburgh, where we would 
be upon the flank of the enemy should he move against McLaws, and 
where we would more readily unite with the rest of the army." Lee 
further says: " The attack oa the garrison (Harper's Ferry) began at 
dawn (15th) ; * * * in about two hours the garrison, consisting of 
more than 11,000 men, surrendered. * * * Leaving General A. P. 
Hill to receive the surrender of the Federal troops and secure captured 
property, General Jackson, with his two other divisions, set out at once 
for Sharpsburgh, ordering Generals McLaws and Walker to follow with- 
out delay. Official information of the fall of Harper's Ferrj' and the 
approach of Jackson were received soon after the co.-ximands of Long- 
street and D. H. Hill reached Sharpsburgh on the morning of the 15th ; 
General Jackson arrived early on the 16th, and General Walker came 
up in the afternoon. 

The presence of the enemy in Crampton's Gap embarrassed the 
movements of General McLaws. He retained the position taken dur- 
ing the night of the 14th to oppose an advance towards Harper's Ferry 
until the capitulation of that place, when, finding the enemy indis- 
posed to at'ack, he gradually withdrew his command toward the 
Potomac. Deeming the roads to Sharpsbui-gh on the north side 
impracticable, he resolved to cross at Harper's Ferry and march by way 
of Shepherdstown, his j^rogress was slow, and he did not reach the 
battlefield at Sharpsburgh until some time after the engagement of the 
17th began. 

The CO I mands of Longstreet and D. H. Hill, on their arrival at 
Sharpsburgh, were placed in position along the range of hills between 
the town and the Antietam, nearly parallel to the course of that stream, 
Longstreet on the right of tlxe road to Boonesboroui'jh, an 1 Hill on the 
left. The advance of the enemy was delayed by Fitz Lee's cavalry, 
and he did not appear on the opposite fide of the Antietam until 2 p.m. 
During the afternoon the batteries on either side were slightly engaged." 
It is said that " General McClellan expected to renew tlie battle" (of 



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South Mountain) "in the morning, and hence during the night moved up 
all his forces within easy supporting distance. The enemy, however^ 
rapidly and quickly withdrew under cover of the night and retreated 
across Antietam Creek in the direction of Sharpsburgh. When the 
skirmishers advanced cautiously through the mist and gray dawn of the 
morning, they discovered that the enemy had fled. The heavy fog 
which had enveloped the mountain, and lay in impenetrable clouds 
upon the valley, screened the movements of the enemy and delayed a 
vigorous pursuit until after the middle of the afternoon." Fog and 
mist, not Filz Lee's cavalry, delayed the Uaion advance. 

The cavalry under Pleasanton, and three corps under Sumner, 
Hooker and Mansfiexd pursued the enemy by ths National Turnpike in 
direction of Booaesborough, the corps of Burnside and Sykes' 
Division by the old Sharpsburgh Road. General Franklin was to move 
into Pleasant Valley and endeavor to relieve Harpers' Ferry, The ces- 
sation of firing at that post indicated it had fallen. McClellan had not 
been given command of Harper's Ferry till all communication with that 
post had been cut off. 

Pleasanton's cavalry charged Fitz Lee's cavalry at Boonesborough 
and captured 2d0 prisoners and two guns. Richardson's Division of 
Second Corps and Sjkes' Div.sion pushed on through Keedysville and 
found the enemy in force on the heights on west side of Antietam 
Creek, his batteries overlooking our approach. This creek was deep 
and crossed only at distant points by bridges. The army was gotten up 
during the night and morning of 16th. Reconnaissances showed Lee's 
army in position awaiting attack. This position extended from the 
heights near the Potomac to the left of Sharpsburgh, running around in 
a semi-circle in front of that town. General Hjoker with h"s (First) 
Corps was ordered to cross Antietam Creek to the Union right, to be sup- 
ported by t!ie Twelftli and Second Corps ; Hooker's Corps crossed the 
creek about 3 p.m. on the IGtli ; the Twelfth Corps crossed the creek dtu-- 
ing the night of the 16th. 

McClellan says : " His plan for the impending engagement was to 
attack the enemy's left with the corps of Hooker and Mansfield, sup- 
ported by Sumner's, and, if necessary, by Franklin's, and as soon as 
matters looked favorable there, to move the corps of Burnside against 
the enemy's extreme right, upon the ridge running to the south and 
rear of Sharpsburgh, and having carried that position, to press alo:igtIie 
crest toward our right, and whenever either of these flank movements 



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should be successful, to advance our centre with all the forces then dis- 
posable. * * * On reaching the vicinity of the enemy's left, a sharp 
contest commenced with the Pennsylvania Reserves, the advance of 
Hookers Corps, near the house of D. Miller. The enemy was driven 
from a strip of wojd^, where he was first met. The firing lasted until 
dark, when General Hooker's Corps rested on their arms on ground won 
froi:i the enemy. * * * A.t daylight on the 17th the action was com- 
menced by the skirmishers of the Pennsylvania Reserves." 

General Meade says in his report : " The division left the mountain 
gap on the morning of the 15th and marched beyond Keedysville, 
bivouacking in the forks of the little and big Antietam. On the 
afternoon of the 16th, about 2 o'clock, the division constituting the 
advance of Hooker's Corps moved * * * on tlie road to Williams- 
port, when, after crossing the bridge over the main Antietam, the head 
of the column was moved to the left across the country, advancing on 
wliat was understood to be the enemy s left flank. Soon after leaving 
the road the cavalry * * * reported having been fired upon, when 
* * * the regiment of rifles was advanced as skirmishers to a piece 
of woods on our left, and four companies of the Third Regiment were 
deploye 1 as skirmishers and sent into a piece of woods on our right. 

The main column, formed of battalions in mass, division front, with 
the artillery, moved over the ground towards a high ridge in front. 
The Bucktail skirmishers findlDg the enemy. General Seymour with his 
brigad'i was directed to advance to their support. This was promptly 
done, and soon Seymour was closely engaged with the enemy's infantry 
and artillery, Coopers battery being posted by Seymour to reply to the 
enemy's artillery. 

In the meantime I had gained the crest with the head of the column, 
and entered a piece of woods, which proved to be in its direction per- 
pendicular to tlie line along which Seymour had advanced. On entering 
these woods the enemy's battery could be plainly seen in a cornfield 
playing on Seymour's column in the front, the inasses of his infantry 
deployed around the battery. The fact that only one regiment, the head 
of our column, was depl yel, deterred me from endeavoring to capture 
the battery by a charge. Ordered up Ransom's battery and caused the 
enemy to withdraw his guns to an eminence in the rear, from whence ho 
commenced shelling the woods we occupied, and the ridge immediately 
l>ehind it. 

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•were deployed ia liii^i of battle to support Ratjsom's battery. After 
-driving: the enemy from the woods, Seymour held his own, and d irkaess 
intervening the contest closed for the night. Seymour holding tiie 
woods immeJiately in front of the enemy and Anderson and Magiltou 
the woods on their flank, Ransom was withdrawn to the rear ; Cooper 
remained in the position occupied in the commencement of the action ; 
and Simpson's battery of howitzers, which had been jwsted on the ridge 
to the rear, replying to the enemy's battery in its second position, also 
remained there. 

Dm-iug the night the enemy made two attacks on Seymour's pickets, 
in both of which he was repulsed with, it is beleived, severe loss. At 
early daylight on the 17th, the contest was warmly renewed by Seymour, 
the enemy atracking him with vigor. The general commanding the 
<;orp3 had sent Ricketts' Division to Seymour's support, and had advanced 
Doubleday's Division along the woods occupied by Magilton's aud 
Anderson's Brigades. These brigades were formed ia columns of battal- 
ions in mass, and moved forward in rear of Doubleday. Seymour and 
Ricketts advancing through one piece of woods and Doubleday on their 
right advancing along the Hagerstown Pike, left an open space between 
them, in which was a ploughed field and an orchard ; beyond this was a 
corn field, the possession of which the enemy warmly disputed. Ran- 
som's battery was advanced into the open ground between the two 
advancing columns and played with great effect on the enemy's infantry 
and batteries. 

The brigades of Anderson and Magilton, on reaching the corn field, 
were moved in a ravine extending up to the pike. Soon after forming, 
I saw the enemy were driving our men from the corn field; I immediately 
deployed both brigades, and formed line of battle along the fence bor- 
dering the corn field, for the purpose of covering the withdrawal of our 
people and resisting the further advance of the enemy. Just as this 
line of battle was formed, I received an order of the general command- 
ing the corps to detach a brigade to reinforce our troops in the woods 
on the left; I directed Magilton's Brigade to move in that direction, 
which order was promptly executed, notwithstanding the brigade, mov- 
ing by the flank, was subjected to a warm fire from the corn field. 
Anderson's Brigade still held the fence on the right, but the gap made 
by the withdrawal of Magflton's Brigade was soon filled by the enemy, 
whose infantry advanced boldly through the corn field to the woods; 
seeing this,, I rode up to Ransom's battery aud directed his guns on their 



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advancing columns, which fire, together with the arrival of Magilton's 
Brigade, in connection with Seymour an 1 Ricketts, drove the enemy 
back, who as they retreated were enfiladed by Anderson, who eventually 
gained the crest of the ridge in the corn field. 

At this time, about 10 A. m. , my division had been engaged about 
five hours, and their ammunition was being exhausted ; I, therefore, 
welcomed the arrival of Bank's Corps, the left column of which, com- 
manded by the gallant Mansfield, moved up to our support in the woods 
on the left, and a column under General Williams moved up to the 
woods on the right of the turnpike. * * * The Tenth Regiment, 
Lieutenant Colonel AVarner, was detached to the right of the road, was 
put in action by General Gibbon aad did good service, * * * also 
Cooper's and Simpson's batteries were early in the morning posted on 
the crest of the ridge we occupied the evening previous, from whence 
they had a command of the enemy's left flank, * * * doing good 
service. * * * Between 11 and 12 M. Mansfield's and Sumner's 
corps arrived. * * * 

General Hooker being wounded, I was directed to take command of 
the corps. I directed the various divisions to be withdrawn as soon as 
they were relieved and to be assembled and reorganized on the ridge in 
our rear. 

By 2 P. M. the Pennsylvania Reserve Division, commanded by 
General Seymour, was organized on tliis ridge, supplied with ammuni- 
tion and held in readiness to repel an attack of the enemy should he 
attempt one on our right flank, or assist in any advance we might 
make."' 

The Twelfth Corps, General Mansfield commanding, was brought 
up between 7 and 8 a. m. to assist the First Corps. The First Division 
of Twelfth Corps, General Williams commanding, was deployed to the 
right, its right resting on the Hagerstown Pike ; the Second Division, 
General Greene, on the left, extending as far as the burnt building to the 
northeast of the white church on the pike. During the deployment of the 
corps General Mansfield was killed. The attack of this (Twelfth) Corps 
was begun by Knaps, Pa. Co' brans N. Y. and Hamptons Pa. batteries. 
The attack of tliis corps continued about two hours, the enemy working 
around west of the pike, when the Second Corps (General Sumner com- 
manding the right wing after the wounding of General Hooker) came 
up, Sedgwick's Division leading, and coming on to the p:round held by 
the Twelfth Corps. Sedgwick's Division advanced to the west of the 



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pike, but being attacked in the front and on left flank by the enemy it 
was forced back, General Sedgwick and about the same time General 
Hooker, being wounded, about 11 a. M. 

Batteries were now (General Sumner commanding) collected to stop 
the enemy's advance upon Sedgwick's repulse, and the Union attack 
practically ceased on the right. General French's Divison of Second 
Corps came in more to tlie left near Union centre, near to the houses 
on Roulette's farm. The enemy counter-charged several times ; the 
fighting here was alternately in favor of one and then of the other. 
General French captured several hundred prisoners and several flags. 
The Confederates considered this the critical point of the day ; they had 
concentrated so much to their left, this part of their line was weak. 

Richardson's Division came in still farther to the left ; Meagher's 
Brigade getting up to Roulette's house, it was relieved by Caldwell's 
Brigade, near the crest overlooking Piper's house. Colonel Barlow, with 
Sixty-First and Sixty-Fourth New York flanked a part of the enemy's 
force in a sunken road and took prisoners and colors. Also Colonel 
Cross, with Fifth New Hampshire and Eighty-First Pennsylvania, per- 
formed a brilliant and gallant feat in counter-charging. Piper's house 
was ultimately gained. 

A section of Robertson's battery under Lieutenant Vincent and 
Graham's Battery, First U. S., assisted- to hold the position. General 
Richardson was killed and General Hancock came into command of the 
division. This part of the Union line was held by assistance of batteries 
from the cavalry and artillery reserve. About 1 P. M. Franklin's Corps 
came up on the right; its arrival was timely, as the enemy were begin- 
ning a return attack all along the left. Franklin was about to attack 
the position near Dunker Church when General Sumner ordered a post- 
ponement. Porter's Fifth Corps held the centre of the main line of 
battle, being posted on the left (east) bank of Antietam Creek. He sent 
during the day portions of his force to assistance of Richardson and 
Burnside. 

Burnside with his corps and the Kanahwa Division was about 8 a. m. 
ordered to carry the stone bridge and cross the Antietam. Crooks 
Brigade of the Kanahwa Division was sent first, but not knowing the 
location of the bridge, struck the stream above it ; the first attempt to 
carry the bridge was unsuccessful and Colonel Kingsbury, a most prom- 
ising yoimg officer, was killed. Later in the day the Fifty-First New 
York and Fifty-First Pennsylvania, being supported by troops above and 



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below the bridge, carried it. The enemy holding the bridge, learning- 
that his flanks were threatened by Crook above and by Rodman's Divi- 
sion below the bridge, retreated to the heights on his side of the stream. 
After crossing their command Burnside and Cox (both appear to 
have commanded the same troops) were slow in forming for attack, but 
their troops wlen ordered to advance, about 3.30 P. M., advanced most 
gallantly to the first crest; here being reformed and reinforced, the 
entire command pushed on to the edge of Sharpsburgh. Just as Burn- 
side's command was entering Sharpsburgh (Burnside had moved up 
Rodman's Division from his left to the front, leaving his left uncov- 
ered), A. P. Hill's Division arrived upon the field coming from Harper's 
Ferry. Hill's command at once attacked the Union left and left rear 
and forced the whole line back to the crest near the Antietam. Both 
sides now being completely exhausted the battle ceased. 

It was the hardest and best fought battle by both sides, of the war. 
McClellan had 87,000 men for duty, probably 70,000 la the action. Lee 
claimed he had only 40,000 muskets, but he held a chosen position with 
ample time to prepare it; this advantage with modern arms, fully coun- 
terbiilanced McClellau's superior numbers. Moreover, McCle.lan had 
to retain one-fourth of his command practically idle to liold the connec- 
tion between his widely separated wings. McCIellan's attack on his 
right was too much by piecemeal, and made without sufficient artillery. 
Tht se were faults too common throughout the war. OrAy at Gettysburg 
was artillery used properly on both sides. The attack on the left was 
badly managed; was especially too slow after it was begun. 

General Lee of this campaign in his report says : ' ' The war was 
thus (by Pope's campaign) transferred from the interior to the frontier, 
and the supplies of rich and productive districts made accessible to our 
armj. To prolong a state of affairs in every way desirable, and not to 
permit the season of active operations to pass without endeavoring to 
inflict further injury on the enemy. (* * * It was hoped military 
success might afl"ord us an opportunity to aid the citizens of Maryland 
in any efforts they migiit be disposed to make to recover their liberties.) 
* * * The army, though not equipped for invasion, was transferred 
into Maryland. 

It liatl been supposed that the advance upon Frederickstown would 
have led to the evacuation of Martinsburg and Harper's Ferry, thus 
open'ng the line of communication throurh the valley. This not having 
occurred. General Jackson was directed lo proceed with liis command 



to Martinsburg, and pfter driving the enemy from that place, to move 
down the south side of the Potomac to Harper's Ferry. McLaws, with 
his own and R. H. Anderson's Division, was ordered to seize Maryland 
Heights, on the north side of the Potomac opposite Harper's Ferry, and 
General Walker to take possession of Loudon Heights, east of the' She- 
nandoah. These commands, after reducing Harper's Ferry and clearing 
the valley of tlie enemy, were to join the rest of the army ar, Boonesboro 
or Hagerstown. The march of the troops began on 10th; remainder 
of Longstreet's command and D. H. Hill's Division crossed South 
Mountain and moved towards Boonesboro. General Stuart remained 
east of the mountains to watch the enemy and to retard his advance. 
Longstreet went to Hagerstown and D. H. Hill tc^ Boonesboro. * » * 
It had not been intended to oppose passage of the Federal army through 
South Mountain. General Jackson crossed tlie Potomac near Williams- 
port on 11th; sent A. P. Hill to Martinsburg. Martinsburg was 
evacuated on the 11th, troops (Federal) going to Harper's Ferry. Gen- 
eral Walker took possession of Loudon Heights on 13th. McLaws 
encountered more opposition, but carried Maryland Heights at 4.30 
on 13th; Harpers Ferry was fully invested on 14th and surrendered 
at 8 A. M. on 15tli. Hearing of McClellan's advance, the troops were 
returned as before described to South Mountain. 

Longstreet was posted^' (at Sharpsburg) " on the right of the road to- 
Boonesboro, and D. H. Hill on the left. Hood's two brigades were 
transferred from the right on 16th to left, between D. If. Hill and 
Hagerstown Road, in anticipation of a movement against Cv.nfeder- 
ate left. Jackson was posted on Hood's left, his right on Hagerstown 
Road, left toward the Potomac, with Stuarts cavalry on his left. Gen- 
eral Walker with his two brigades was posted on Longstreet's right. At 
10 P. M. (16th) Hood's troops were relieved by Lawton's and Trimble's, 
brigades of Ewell's Division : Jackson's own division on Lawton's left, 
supported by remaining brigades of Ewell's Division. 

At early dawn (ITtli) artillery opened. * * * Under cover of 
their fire Union troops attacked Jackson ; * * * f^^ several hours 
the conflict raged with great fury and alternate success. * « * Gen- 
eral Starke was killed, General Lawton w^ounded. * * * Qut 

ti-oops slowly yielded to overwhelming numbers and fell back. * * ♦ 
Hood returned to the Held and relieved the brigades of Trimble Law- 
ton and Hays. * * * General Early, who succeeded to (he command 
of Ewell's Division, was ordered to move with his brigade to take the 



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place of Jackson's Division withdrawn, a part of the latter remaining 
with Early, also portions of Trimble's, I^awton's and Hays' brigades. 
Hood was reinforced by brigades of Ripley, Colquitt and Garland of 
D. H. Hill's Division, and afterwards by D. U. Jones' Brigade. * * * 

The desperate rtsistance they (the enemy) encountered delayed 
their progress until the troops of McLaws arrived, and those of General 
Walker were brought from the right. * * * Hood's Brigade was 
relieved by Walker's command, who immediately attacked and drove 
the enemy back. * * * Colonel Manny, commanding Walker's 
Brigade, pursued until he was stopped by a strong fence, behind which 
were posted a large force of infantry" (Third Brigade of Reserves-) 
■" and several batteries ; Colonel Manny was wounded and his command 
fell back. * * * Upon the arrival of reinforcement<^ under 
McLaws, General Early attacked ; McLaws advanced at the same time, 
-* * * beyond the position occupied at the beginning of the engage- 
ment. The attack on the left was speedily followed by one in the 
•centre ; this was met by part of Walker's Division and brigades of G. B. 
Anderson and Rodes, of D. H. Hill's command, assisted by artillery. 
General R. H. Anderson's Division came to General D. H. IZiU's sup- 
port.* * * * At this time, by a mistake of orders, Rodes' Brigade was 
withdrawn ; * * * the enemy pressed through this gap and G. B. 
Anderson's Brigade was broken and retired ; General G. B. Anderson 
was killed, Major-General R. H. Anderson and General Wright 
wounded. * * * While the attack on the centre and left was in 
progress the enemy made repeated efforts to force the passage of the 
bridge over the Antietam defended by Second and Twentieth Georgia 
and General D. R. Jones' batteries ; General Jones had about 2,000 men ; 
* * * he was reinforced by General A. P. Hill's command , it having 
left Harper's Ferry at 7.30 A. M." 

The Reserve Division, already reduced by losses in battle on the 
Peninsula and in Pope's campaign, and by absentees with and without 
authority, went into the South Mountain and Antietam battles much 
reduced in numbers. The losses in these two last battles being so veiy 
heavy, the division, as it came out of them, was not larger than a brig- 
ade. Regiments were commanded by captains and companies by non- 
commissioned officers. Governor Curtin, September 30th, wrote to 
President Lincoln requesting that the division might be sent to tlie State 
to be recrui'ed. This was refused, as it was hoped by the authorities 
that the Army of the Potomac would make another advance toward 



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llichmond before the bad weather set ia. This was not accom- 
plished as the army did not begin to move till October 26th on 
whicli day, Sunday, in a severe rain storm, the division broke camp 
near Sharpsburg, marched southeasterly and encamped at night in 
Pleasant Valley, at the base of South Mountain. The division, General 
.leade commanding, crossed the Potomac at Berlin October 30th and 
marched beyond LovettsviUe and remained here until November 1st The 
mam army advanced along the east side of the mountains till it reached 
Warrenton. The Reserve Division passed through Waterford, PennviUe 
UmonandMiddleburg, and encamped south of Warrenton November 
6th; General McClellan was relieved of command of the Army of the 
Potomac November 7th, and General Burnside immediately assumed 
command. 

That McClellan ought to have advanced against the Confederate 
army sooner than he did is not now doubted, although his demands for 
necessary horses, shoes and other supplies were not promptly supplied 

l(et It was a great military error to relieve McClellan at the time 
ne was relieved. 

THE BATTLE OF FREDERICKSBURG 
When McClellan was relieved the Army of the Potomac was located 
about as follows: The First, Second and Fifth Corps, Reserve artillery and 
army headquarters were at Warrenton, the Ninth Corps on the Rappahan- 
nock, at Waterloo; Sixth Corps at New Baltimore; Eleventh Corps at 
Gamesvzlle and Thoroughfare Gap; Sickles' Division of Third Corps on 
Orange and Alexandria Railroad; Pleasonton, with his cavalry opposite 
Longstreet, who was at Culpeper; Bayard's cavalry near Rappahan- 
nock Station. The Confederate GeneralJackson, with about half the ' 
Confederate army, was west of the mountains. General Seymour was 
relieved about this time, and General Jackson retm-ned to duty. Colo- 
nel Sinclair, of the Sixth, commanded the First Brigade. Colonel Magil- 
ton the Second, and General Jackson the Third. The One Hundred and 
Twenty First Pennsylvania was attached to the First Brigade, and One 
Hundred and Forty-Secmd Pennsylvania to the Second. Tlie Twelfth 
Regiment was commanded by Captain Gustin. 

Burnside's plan of campaign, as approved by General Halleck, carried 
the army to Falmouth, where it was rapidly marched, arriving between 
the 18th and 21st. Thepontoon bridges to cross the Rappahannock River ' 
havmgbeen delayed the Confederate army concentrated at Fredericks- 



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burg before the Union army could be crossed. General Burnside formed 
the Army of the Potomac, which at this time was very strong, into three 
grand divisions : The Right Grand Division consisting of the Second and 
Ninth Coriis, under General Sumner ; the centre, of the Third and Fifth 
Corps under General Hooker ; the left, of the First and Sixth Corps, 
under General Franklin. The Eleventh Corps under General Sigel was 
held as a reserve. 

The army was ordered to cross the Rappahannock, on the 10th; Frank- 
lin's Grand Division crossed without opposition on the 11th and 13th. 
The Reserves, commanded by General Meade, constituted a division of 
the First Corps, which was commanded by General Reynolds. The centre 
and right of the army were opposed by sharpshooters, and only after 
pontoon boats filled with infantry , at the suggestion of General Hunt, 
Chief of Artillery, had crossed and driven off the enemy's skirmishers, 
were the engineers able to place bridges for the centre and right. The 
First Corps, with the Reserve Division on the left of the corps, was on 
the extreme left of the army, the Sixth Corps supported the First. The 
evening of the 11th, Howard's Divibion of Second Corps occupied the 
town of Fredericksburg, the balance of the Second Corps and the Ninth 
Corps crossed during the night and next morning. Hooker's Grand 
Division followed Sumner's. 

Lor.gstreet"s Confederate Corps held the heights on Lee's left, D, H. 
Hill's Division the right centre and Jackson's Corps the right. Jackson 
had been watching the lower Rappahannock. 

It would apptar that Burnside's original plan of attack was for 
Franklin to commence the attack on the Union left with his whole 
force and endeavor to turn Lee's right, and while this was being done, 
the Union right to a<tack in force Lee's left. But the order of attack as 
acted upon, both by Franklin and Sumner, was to attack with one divi- 
sion and to follow this attack up, Franklin *' to keep his main command 
in readines for a rapid movement along the dd Richmond Road." The 
attack was made on the left 1 y the Reserve Division, supported by 
Gibbon's Division on its right and by Doubleday's Division first in reserve 
and afterwards on its left. 

General Meade describes the Reserves' attack as follows: "First 
Brigade, Colonel Sinclair commanding, Sixth, First Rifles, Fii-st and 
Second Regiments of Reserves, One Hundred and Twenty-first Pennsyl- 
vania ; Second Brigade, Colonel Magilton, of Fourth, commanding. 
Third. Fuurih, Seventh and Eighth Reserves and One Hundred aind 



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Forty-Seoond Pennsylvania ; Third Brigade, General Jackson command- 
ing, Fifth, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh and Twelfth Regiments Pennsylvania 
Reserves. Attached to this division were four batteries of four guns 
each, commanded by Captain Ransom, Third United States, and Lieu- 
tenant T. G. Simpson, Captain Cooper, and Captain Amsden of First 
Pennsylvania Artillery. 

On the 11th instant the division moved from the camp near White 
Oak Church to the vicinity of the point on the Rappahannock River 
selected for the crossing of the Left Grand Division. The previous 
evening Captain Amsden's battery of rifled guns liad been detached 
and ordered to report to Captain DeRussy, U. S. A., for service on the 
river bank. General Jackson's Brigade, together with Ransom's and 
Simpson's batteries, were also detached and sent down diiring the night 
of the 10th, and posted on the river bank to protect the crossing, which 
duty was successfully accomplished without loss, although there was 
considerable firing between our sharpshooters and those of the enemy 
posted on the opposite bank. 

The bridges being completed, the division crossed the river on the 
morning of the 12th, and was posted on the plateau, on the left of the 
Hue of battle formed by the Left Grand Division. The following was 
the formation of the division : The First Brigade in line of battle, irs left 
resting on the river bank, and the line extending in a northwesterly 
direction, along and in rear of the ravine at Smithfield, the right 
connecting with the left of Gibbon's Division. Two regiments of this 
bri-ade, tbo i'irst Rifles and Second Infantry were detached, the former 
for picliet duty, the latter to occupy the bmldings and outhouses at Smi h- 
field, and to hold the bridge across the ravine at its debouche into the 
river. The batteries were posted in front of the First Brigade, on the 
edge of the ravme, where they had complete command of the front and 
of the approach by the Bowling Green Read. 

The Second Brigade was formed in line of battle three hundred 
paces in rear of the first and parallel to it ; and the Third Brigade along 
the river bank in column of regiments, the head of the column being one 
hundred paces in rear of the left of the Second Brigade. This position 
was occupied by 3 p. m. without any serious opposition from the enemy, 
but with occasional skirmishes with the pickets in front. 

Early on the morning of the 13th I accompanied the general com- 
manding the corps to the headquarters of the Left Grand Division, whore 
the Commanding General indicated the point he was instructed to 



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attack ; and I was informed that my division had been selected to make 
the attack. The point indicated was on the ridge, or rather range of 
heights, extending from the Rappahannock in rear of Fredericksburg, 
to the Massaponax, and was situated near tlie left of this ridge, where 
it terminated in the Massaponax Valley. 

Between the heights to be attacked and the plateau on which the 
Left Grand Division was posted, there was a depression or hollow of 
several hundred yards in width, through which, and close to the foot of 
the heights, the Richmond Railroad ran. The heights along the east 
were wooded. The slope to the railroad from the extreme left, for the 
space of three or four hundred yards, was clear. Beyond this it was 
wooded, the woods extending across the hollows and in front of the 
railroad. The plateau on our side was level and cultivated ground up 
to the crest of the hollow, where there was quite a fall to the railroad. 
The enemy occupied the wooded heights, the line of the railroad and 
the woods in front. Owing to the woods, nothing could be seen of 
them, while all our movements on the cleared ground were exposed to 
their view. 

Immediately on receiving orders, the division was moved forward, 
across the Smilhfield ravine, advancing down the river some seven or 
eight hundred yards, when it turned sliai'p to the right and crossed the 
Bowling Green Road, which here runs in a parallel direction with the 
railroad. Some time was consumed in removing the hedge fences on 
this road and bridging the the drains on each side for the passage of 
artillery. Between 9 and 10 a. m. the column of attack was formed as 
follows : The First Brigade in line of battle on the crest of the hollow 
and facing the railroad, with the Sixth Regiment deployed as skir- 
mishers ; the Second Brigade in rear of the First three hundred paces ; 
the Third Brigade by the flank, its right flank being a few yards to the 
rear of the First Brigade, having the Ninth Regiment deployed on its 
flank as skirmishers and flankers ; the batteries between the First and 
Second brigades. 

This disposition had scarcely been made when the enemy opened a 
brisk fire from a battery posted on the Bowling Green Road, tlie shot 
from which took the command from the left to rear. Apprehending an 
attack from that quarter, the Third Brigade was faced to the left (thus 
forming with the First two sides of a square). Simpson's battery was 
advanced to the front and left of the Third Brigade, and Cooper's and 
Ransom's batteries moved to a knoll on the left of the First Brigade. 



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These batteriesimmediately opened fire on the enemy's hatt/^ry and in 
conjunction with some of Doubledays batteries in our rear, on the other 
side of Bowling Green Road, after some tv^enty minutes firing, silenced 
and compelled the withdrawal of the guns. 

During the artillery duel the enemy advanced a body of sharp- 
shooters along the Bowling Green Road and under cover of the hedges 
and trees at the road side. General Jackson promptly sent out two 
companies of marksmen from his brigade, who drove the enemy back 
No further demonstration on our left and rear being made, the advance 
wasagam determined on. Previous to pushing forward the infanti-v 
the batteries were directed to shell the heights and the woods in front' 
For this purpose, and to protect our lines in case of fallmg back 
Ransom's battery was moved to the right and front of the First Brigade 
and Amsden's battery, which had just rejoined from detached duty 
was posted on tlie right of Cooper. 

During tliis operation, by order of the general commanding the 
First Corps, the Third Brigade, changed front and formed in line of 
battle on the left of the First Brigade, its left extending so as to be 
nearly opposite to the end of the ridge to be attacked. The formation 
was barely executed before the enemy opened a sharp fire from a 
battery posted on the heights to our extreme left. Cooper's, Amsden's 
and Riinsom's batteries were immediately turned on it, and after about 
thirty minutes rapid fire the enemy abandoned his guns, having had 
two of his limbers or caissons blown up, the explosions from which 
were plainly visible. As soon as the enemy's guns were silenced the 
line of infantry was advanced to the attack. The First Bri^^ade to the 
right advanced several hundred yards over cleared ground, drivmg the 
enemy's skirmishers before them, till they reached the woods previously 
described as being in front of the railroad, which they entered driving 
the enemy out of them to the railroad, where they were found strongly 
posted in ditches and behind temporary defences. 

The brigade (First) drove tliem from there and up the heights in 
their front. Owing to a heavy fire being received on their ri-^ht"flank 
they obUqued over to that side, but continued forcing the enemy back 
till they had crowned the crest of the hill, crossed a main road which 
runs along the crest and reached open ground on the other side where 
they were assailed by a very severe fire from a large force in their front 
and at the same time the enemy opened a battery which completely 
enfiladed them from the right flank. After holding tlieir ground for 



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some time, axid no support arriving, they were compelled to fall back to 
the railroad. 

The Second Brigade, which advanced in rear of the First, after 
reaching the railroad, had so severe a fire on then- right flank that the 
Fourth Regiment halted and formed, faced to the right, to repel this 
attack. The other regiments in passing through the vi^oods, being 
assaded from the left, inclined to that direction and ascended the heights, 
the Thh-d going up as the One Hundred and Twenty-First Peimsylvania, 
of the Frst Brigade, was retiring. The Third continued to advance and 
read ed nearly the same point as the First Brigade, but was compelled 
to withdraw for the same reason. The Seventh Regiment engaged the 
enemy to the left, capturing many prisoners and a standard, driving 
them from their rifle pits and temporary defences, and continuing the 
pursuit till, encountering the enemy's reinforcements, they were in turn 
driven back. The Third Brigade had net advanced over one hundred 
yards when the battery on the height on its left was re-manned, and 
poured a destructive fire into its ranks. 

Perceiving this, I dispatched my aide-de-camp. Lieutenant Dehon, 
with orders for General Jackson to move by the right flank till he could 
clear the open ground in front of the battery and then, ascending the 
heights through the woods, sweep around to the left and take the bat- 
tery. Unfortunately, Lieutenant Dehon fell iiist as he reached General 
Jackson, and a short time after the latter ofiicer was killed. The regi- 
ments did, however, partially execute the movement by obliquing to the 
right, and advanced across the railroad, a portion ascending the heights 
in the front. The loss of their commander and the severity of the fire, 
from both artillery and infantry, to which they were subjected, com- 
pelled them to withdraw when those on their right withdrew. 

It will be seen from the foregoing tliat the attack was for a time j)er- 
fectly successful. The enemy Avas driven from the railroad, his rifle pits 
and breastworks for over have a mile, over two hundred prisoners were 
taken and several standards, when the advanced line encountered the 
heavy reinforcements of the enemy, who, recovering from the effects of 
our assault, and perceiving both our flanks unprotected, poured in such 
a destructive fire from all directions as to compel the line to fall back, 
which was conducted without confusion. 

Perceiving the danger of too great penetration of my line witliout 
support, I dispatched several staff oflicers both to General Gibbon's 
command and to General Birney's (whose division had replaced mine at 



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the batteries from whence we advanced), urging au advance to my sup- 
port, the cue on my right, the other to tha left. A brigade of Birney's 
advanced to our relief, just as my men were withdrawn from the woods, 
and (Jibbon's Division advanced into tlie woods on our right in time to 
assist materially in the safe withdrawal of my broken line. An unsuc- 
cessful effort was made to reform the division in tlie hollow in front of 
the^batteries. Failing in this, the command was reformed beyond the 
Bowling Green Road and marched to the ground occupied the nigh.t 
before, where it was held in reserve till the night of the 15th, wheti we 
recrossed the river. 

Accompanying this report is a list giving the names of the killed, 
wounded and missing, amounting in the aggregate to 1,760. When I 
report that 4,500 men is a liberal estimate of the strength of the division 
taken into action " (this includes two new regiments, One Hundred and 
Twenty-First and One Hundred and Forty-Second Pennsylvania, say 
1,000) "this large los^ being nearly 40 per cent, will fully bear rne 
out in tlie expression of my satisfaction at the go )d conduct of both 
officers and men. While I deeply regi-et the inabCity of the division, 
after having successfully penetrated the enemy's line, to remain and 
hold what it had secured, at the same time I deem their witlidrawal a 
matter of necessity. With one brigade commander killed, another 
wounded, nearly half their number hors de combat, with regiments 
separated from Irigades, and companies from regiments, and all the 
confusion and disaster incidental to the advance of an extended line 
through woods and other obstructions, assailed by a heavy fire, not 
only of infantry, but of artillery, not only in front but on both flanks, 
the best troops would be justified in withdrawing without loss of honor. 
* * * My thanks are due to Colonel Sinclair, of Sixth Regiment, and 
Colonel MagUton, of Fourth, for the manner in which they handled tlieir 
commands. To Colonel Sinclair particularly, who had command of the 
advance during the whole day, and who was severely wounded, I desire 
to express my obligation for the assistance rendered me. 

* * * The loss of Lieutenant Arthur Dehon, Twelfth Regiment, 
my aide, is greatly to be deplored. * * * The public service has rdso 
to mourn the loss of Brigadier-General Jackson, an officer of merit and 
reputation, who owed liis position to his gallantry and good conduct in 
previous actions. * * * " 

Swinton in his history of the Army of the Potomac says : " Meade 
advanced across the plain, but had not proceeded far before he was 



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compelled to stop and silence a battery that Stuart had posted on the 
Port Royal Road, and which had a flank fire on his left. This done he 
pushed on, his line preceded by a cloud of skirmishers and his batteries 
A'igorously shelling the heights and woods in his front. This caused con- 
siderable loss to nill, who held Jackson's line; but the Confederates con- 
cealed in the woods made no reply from artillery or infantry until Mead& 
reached within point blank rangp, when, suddenly opening, shell and 
canister were poured in from the long silent Confederate batteries. Yet 
tliis did not stay him ; and the line advanced so boldly that the three 
Confederate batteries, posted in advance of the railroad, had to be hastily 
withdrawn. The division of A. P. Hill, which held Jackson's advance 
line, was thus disposed : The brigades of Archer, Lane and Pender, from 
right to left, with Gregg's in rear of the interval between Archer and 
Lane, and Thomas' iarear of that, between Lane and Pender. Meade 
pushed forward his line impetuously, drove back Lane through the 
woods, and tlien wedged in between Lane and the brigade on his right, 
swept back the right flank of the one and the left flank cf the other, 
capturing above two hundred prisoners and several standards, crossed 
the railroad, pushed up the crest and reached Gregg's position on a new 
military road which Lee had made for the purpose of connecting his two- 
wings," Meade met Gregg's Brigade at the military road, and while 
contending with it Early's Division came up and attacked both his 
flanks, compelling Meade by overwhelming numbers to retire. Swinton 
farther says : " Gibbon advanced on the right of Meade, and though he 
did not push on as far as the latter, he helped stem the hostile return, 
and assisted iu the withdrawal of Meade's shattered line." Birney's 
Division came up too Jate to assist the attack, but in time to render valu- 
able assistance to Meade's and Gibbon's retiring troops. 

" At the time the attack en the left was fully developed, Sumner, on 
the right, was instructed to assail the height back of Fredericksburg. 
He was ordered to make tlie attack with a single division, supported by 
another. * * * Couch's Second Corps occupied the town. Wilcox's 
Ninth Corps the interval between Couch and Franklin. * * * 
Couch ordered forward French's Division from the town at noon, to be 
followed and supported by Hancock's Division. French * * * 
moved out on the plank and telegraph roads, and, crossing the canal, 
found a ris? of ground, under cover of which he deployed his troops 
* * * with brigade front, Kimble in front, Andrew's and Palmer's 
(brigades) following. Hancock followed, in fame formation, with 



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Zook's, Meagher's and Caldwell's brigades." These divisions made a 
gallant assault, but failed to reach Longstreet's line. Howard's Division , 
then Sturges' and Getty's attacked with same ill success. Finally, 
Humphreys' Division assaulted against the advice of General Hooker, 
and failed as had the other divisions, all with terrible losses. 

"The losses in some of the commands," (says Mulholland, in his 
account of this battle) " were unusually severe. The Eleventh Reserves 
lost six color bearers inside of a few minutes, and Company ' E ' of that 
regiment had but three men left unhurt. Company ' C ' Twelfth Regi- 
ment lost forty of the forty-nine present, and among the wounded was 
the Captain, H. S. Lucas." During the night of the 15th the army was 
withdrawn and recrossed the Rappahannock. 

This battle showed most conclusively the advantages of the defence 
with modern weapons. Even a temporarily fortified position can 
only be taken under favorable circumstances for the offence, such as 
dense woods near enemy's position, fog, darkness and the like. Twelfth 
Regiment lost in this action : Killed thirteen ; wounded, five officers and 
sixty-six men ; missing two officers and thirty-one men ; total one 
hundred and twenty-two, about one half (he number taken into 
action. The losses in the Reserve Division had been so great in the 
battle of Fredericksburg, it was necessary to reorganize it and fill it 
up or to break it up. Its conduct had been so brilliant in this battle 
even the Secretary of War could not but see it would be best to retain 
the organization. 

Colonel Hardin, of Twelfth, returned to the command the latter 
part of December and was assigned to command of the Third Brigade, 
but was not yet sufficiently recovered from wounds received at Second 
Bull Run battle to remain in the wet and cold camp at Belle Plain. On 
the 8th of January the Twelfth Regiment left BeUe Plain on transports 
for Alexandria, arrived on 9th, camped near Fairfax Seminary two days, 
from whence it was moved to Union Hill. The Reserves had been trans- 
ferred to the Department of Washington to give them rest, but the 
guerrilla, Mosby, was so active, the picket duty here became more ardu- 
ous than it was with the Army of the Potomac, and altogether the duties 
were no lighter nor the quarters any better than they were in the active 
army. The command failed to obtam the rest it required, and conse- 
quently the slightly wounded and sick absentees were ia no hurry to 
rejoin their command. The object of retiring the division, that is, 
giving the men rest and filling up the ranks, was not accomplished. 



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Many sick men who could be of no further service were discharged, 
and many commissioned officers, whose wounds or other injuries ren- 
dered them unfit for further service, were permitted to resign, or they 
were transferred to the Invalid Corps. Some sick were returned to the 
regiments. 

Lieutenant-Colonel Bailey resigned February 15th, 1863, also Dr. 
Taylor and Chaplain Miller resigned and Captain Horn of Company D, 
who had been severely wounded on tlie Peninsula, was honoral)]y 
discharged. 

The 20th day of April, 1863, tlie Third Brigade, commanded by 
Colonel Fisher, was ordered to the City of Washington to guard Confed- 
erate prisoners and to do Provost duty. The Ninth and Twelfth Regi- 
ments, both under command of Colonel Plardin, were assigned to Car- 
roll Barracks on Capitol Hill, where details were made to guard prison- 
ers and Government property. 



CHAPTER XI. 



GETTYSBURG CAMPAIGN. 

The Gettysburg campaign on the Union side began with the battle of 
Beverly Ford, one of the results of which was the knowledge that Lee's 
army was moving northwestward. This action "was the mrst import- 
ant, as well as the most severe, the cavalry of the Army cf the Potomac 
had fought. By it tlie Union cavalry not only developed General Lee's 
plan of campaign, but also learned its equality with the Confederate 
■cavalry. 

As soon as General Hooker received certain information that Lee 
had extended his army from Fredericksburg to the Shenandoah Valley, 
he proposed to General Ilalleck to attack Lee's rear at Fredericksburg; 
this movement was disapproved. General Hooker then gave orders 
preparatory to meeting General Lee's army in its northwestward move- 
ment. 

There was some delay due to instructions from General Halleck, 
but in a few days the Army of the Potomac moved between the Confed- 
erate army and Washington, with the main body of its cavalry on its 
left (west) flank. The cavalry covered the Union army most thor- 
oughly. It never performed its duty toward that army in a more scien- 
tific (military) manner. The fighting about Aldie, Upperville and Mid- 
dleburg, Virginia, was admitted by the Confederates to have been the 
best the Union cavalry had done, except at Beverly Ford. The cavalry 
was supported by a small force of infantry, both at Beverly Ford and in 
the actions near Middleburg. A German officer. Major Von Bo'cke 
(who was with the Confederates), and others state that General Stuart's 
Confederate cavalry was never more numerous (Von Borcke estimated 
it at 12,000 and twenty-four guns) and never in better condition. Con- 
sidering this, we can Ihe better appreciate the fine work done by the 
Union cavalry on this advance northward. The Confederate cavalry 
considerably outnumbered the Union up to the time that General 
Stahl's Cavalry Division, from the defences of "Washington, joined the 
army. The management of the cavalry, whilst en route to Gettysburg, 
was only surpassed when it was led by the indomitable will and mar- 
velous skill of General Sheridan. 



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The Army of the Potomac, moving slowly northwestward, crossed 
the Potomac June 26 and 27. General Lee's main army had crossed 
that river at or near Williamsport, Md., en 23d and 24th. When Gen- 
eral Hooker reached the vicinity of Washington his army had been 
much reduced by expirations of terms of service (Hooker said about 
40,000). He now learned that there was a large number of troops 
(about 37,000) in the defences of Washington. Inasmuch as the Union 
army now covered Washington, he requested that some of these troops 
be sent to reinforce his army. He was authorized to take Stahl's Cav- 
alry Division and the Pennsylvania Reserve Division. He ordered the 
latter division (June 24) to join his army. 

When the Reserves heard that General Lee thre'itened to invade 
Maryland and probably Pennsylvania, officers and men began to take on 
the military air, which had been somewhat laid aside after Fredericks- 
burg; and " talk'" of applying to rejoin their comrades of the Army of 
the Potomac, on their march northward, became prevalent, and went 
so far, in one case at least, as to be put in the form of a written petition. 
Whatever the form, the feeling of the command, from drummer bey to 
chaplain, was to take another turn at the "Johnnies," to go in for a 
fight, if Lee's army went as far north as Pennsylvania. June 24, the 
Twelfth Regiment, Lieutenant-Colonel Gustin commanding, formed a 
part of the Third Brigade. Colonel Fisher commanded the brigade. 
General Crawford the division. The Third Brigade, consisting of the 
Fifth, Lieutenant-Colonel Dare ; Ninth, Colonel Ar.derson ; Tenth, 
Colonel Warner ; Eleventh, Colonel Jackson, and Twelfth, Lieutenant- 
Colonel Gustin, was at this date in camp at Minors' Hill. The First 
Brigade, Colonel McCandless commanding, consisting of the First 
Rifles (old Bucktails) and First, Second and Sixth Regiments, was 
camped at Fairfax Court House. The Second Brigade, Colonel Sickel 
commanding, consisting of the Third, Fourth, Seventh and Eighth 
Regiments, was on provost duty in Alexandria, Va. 

In accordance with instructions from General Hooker, General 
Crawford ordered the three brigades of the Pennsylvania Reserve 
Division to march on the 25th. The First and Third Brigades moved 
accordingly, but the Second Brigade was detained by General Slough, 
Military Governor of Alexandria. He thought a veteran brigade neces- 
sary to keep convalescents in camp ! In violation of all mi'itary piin- 
ciples he retained this splendid body of veterans against their will and 
in disobedience of General Hooker's orders. 



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However, he was sustained by the action of the military " coterie" 
which surrounded our noble President. This -'coterie" never forgave 
General Hooker for his first dispatch upon assuming command of the 
Army of the P( tomac, namely, requesting that General Stone be made 
chief of his staff. Not only did they refuse to entertain General 
Hooker's charges against General Slough, but they refused him control 
of the large force at Maryland Heights, and ultimately forced him to 
throw up the command of the army. Few persons are acquainted with, 
and still fewer willing to acknowledge, the great difficulties of Mr. 
Lincoln's position, due principally to influential poUticians and news- 
paper editors wishing to conduct the war, and jealous generals giving 
opposing counsels. The writer believes with Colonel Scott (compiler of 
•' Eebellion Records "), " that Mr. Lincoln acquired a very great knowl- 
edge of the art of war," and that, if he had been permitted to act as he saw 
fit, many misfortunes would have been spared the Union forces. The 
Twelth Regiment moved with the Third Brigade, in a rain storm, on 
the 26th of June, marching to Goose Creek, Va., that day. The 
division had been delayed two days waiting for transportation. The 
First Brigade joined the Third en route ; the two brigades, about 3,417 
strong camped together at Goose Creek. On the 37th the division 
moved at daylight along the Leesburg Pike. It was much delayed by 
the Army of the Potomac trains and by its own train. 

General Crawford telegraphed General Meade, commanding the 
Fifth Corps : " On the Monocacy, June S7th, 4.15 p. M. General: I have 
received orders from headquarters. Army of the Potomac, to join your 
corps. I am on my way and just in from the rear ; to-night I will 
encamp above the mouth of the Monocacy, as I find my train, which is 
entirely new, cannot go further ; have two brigades, second detached at 
Alexandria. If I receive no instructions to the contrary, I shall move 
at daylight to overtake, if possible, your command." 

The division crossed the Potomac at Edward's Ferry on pontoon 
bridge and camped at night at the mouth of the Monocacy. Colonel 
Hardm, of Twelfth, joined en route. The 28th, Sunday, was clear and 
pleasant ; the division moved at daylight and soon crossed the aqueduct 
of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal at the Monocacy and, passing through 
Buckeyestown, bivouacked on Ballinger's Creek about two miles from 
Frederick. Here joined Fifth Corps. 

General Meade was this day assigned to command of the Army of 
the Potomac, General Sykes to Fifth Corps. 



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General Hooker advanced a portion of his army through the south 
mountain passes, with the view of cutting General Lee's communica- 
tions, but this movement vvas disapproved at Washington and the corps 
advanced tlirough the mountain passes were ordered back to Frederick, 
and directed to proceed up the east base of these mountains. This latter 
movement was taking place when the Reserve Division joined the 
army. The greater part of the Union army at this time rested near 
Frederick. 

At this da*e, June 28th, General Lee's army was stretched from 
Hagerstown to the Susquehanna, near Harrisburg, and to York, Penn.; 
Ewell's Corps at Carlisle and York. General Lee's headquarters with 
Longstreet's and Hill's Corps near Chambersburg. General Lee was 
preparing to cross the Susquehanna, but that night, he says, he learned 
from a scout that the Union army had crossed the Potomac and was 
threatening his communications at South Mountain. It was resolved, 
he says, to concentrate the army east of the moiintains. 

General Meade states : " That he had no special plan but to move 
northward until he made Lee let go Lis hold of the Susquehanna." 
General Meade learned on the 30th that General Lee was moving with 
his main force to the east side of the mountains, and he decided to con- 
centrate his army on Pike Creek. The Army of the Potomac moved on 
the 29th as follows : Headquarters to Middleburg; First and Eleventh 
corps to Emmittsburg; Second Corps to Uniontown ; Third Corps to 
Taney town; Fifth Corps, via Frederick and Moimt Pleasant, to Liberty; 
Sixth Corps to New Windsor; Twelfth Corps to Taney town and Bruce- 
ville; Gamble's and Deven's brigades of Buford's Cavalry Division via 
Boonsboro, Cavetown and Monterey Springs to near Fairfield; Merritt's 
Brigade of Buford's Division to Mechanic st own; Gregg's Division of 
cavalry to New Windsor; Kilpalrick's Cavalry Division to Littletown, 
the Artillery Reserve to Bruceville. There were combats at Muddy 
Branch and Westminster, Md., and at McConnelbburg and near Oyster 
Point, Penn. 

There was an assemblage of officers of the Reserve Division whilst 
it was camped near Frederick, looking over maps of the country and 
guessing at the future movements of the Union and Confederate armies. 
Colonel Warner, of the Tenth, and ihe writer agreed that the chances 
were in favor of a fight at or near Gettysburg, the next good crossing 
place in the mountains north of our then position, as shown by the maps 
we had. 



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The morning of the 29th the writer visited Frederick and conversed 
veith officers of General Reynolds' command, Fii-st and Eleventh corps. 
They thought they were going to Gettysburg, or spoke of that place as 
their ultimate destination. Returning towards camp the writer met the 
division en route to Frederick ; it had left Ballinger's Creek about noon ; 
it marched but a short distance from Frederick when it was halted to 
permit other troops to take precedence. The division remained in this 
posiiion several liours ; it then followed the Artillery Reserve. The 
writer, during this delay, visittd his old friend, Lieutenant "Cog" 
Hazlet.who was commanding Battery "D," Fifth United States Artillery. 
The weather was very warm ; Lieutenant Hazlet wore a small wliite 
hat. Ab the writer left him to rejoin his command he called back, 
" ' Cog,' we are going to have a fight soon : don't wear that white hat 
into battle 1" 

" At 7 p. M. we crossed the Monocacy Bridge on the Baltimore Pike, 
and turnf d up the banks of the stream, heading north ; soon after we 
waded the stream and struck across the fields, and at about 10 p. k. 
bivouacked in a wood, having made a tiresome day's march of ten 
miles." The long delay before mentioned caused our division to get far 
behind the other divisions of the corps. We had to rush along well 
into the night to reach the corps camp, where the leading divisions 
had arrived early in the evening and in good order. Having arrived in 
camp late, and it being very dark, we made a bivouac, whilst we saw 
the other divisions of I he Fifth Corps in a regular camp. Most of us 
■were 60 hot and tired we dropped down and went to sleep without even 
making coffee. A bad beginning for a long march. 

June 30th the Union army moved as follows : Headquarters to 
Taney town; First and Eleventh Corps, to Marsh Run; Third Corps, to 
Bridgeport; Fifth Corps, via Johnsville, Union Bridge and Union, to 
Union Mills ; Sixth Corps, to Manchester ; Twelfth Corps, to Littles- 
town ; Second Corps, to Uniontown ; Gamble's and Devin's brigades, 
via Emmittsburg, to Gettysburg ; Gregg's Division, via Westminster, to 
Manchester ; Kilpatrick's Division, to Hanover ; Artillery Reserve, to 
Taneytown. Action at Hanover, Penn. ; skirmishes at Westminster, 
Md., and at Fairfield and Sporting Hill, Penn. 

Stuart's Confederate Cavalry Divi- ion had crossed the Potomac, east 
of the Union army, and moved north, between it and Washington. 
Gregg's and Kilpatrick's divisions were watching Stuart and guarding 
the Union trains. " The morning of the 30th we started early, passing^ 



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tlu'ough Liberty, Uuion Bridge and Unic^ntown (a poutoou train accom- 
panied us tliis day) ; marched twenty miles and bivouacked near dark ; 
were mustered two miles beyond Union town." The marching all the 
forenoon was very slow, with many stops ; but in the afternoon we 
were rushed along. This march was the cause of a great injustice done 
our division, in that it was reported to the Army Commander that our 
division cuuld not march as fast as the other divisions of the corps. It 
will be noted that these other divisions had clear roads, no trains to fol- 
low, early start, no forced delays ; in short, nothing to prevent them 
making their marches in time. 

July 1st the Union army moved as follows : First, Eleventh and 
Third corps, to Gettysburg ; Second Corps, to near Gettysburg ; Fifth 
Corps, via Hanover and McSherrystown, to Boroughtown ; Sixth Corps, 
en route to Gettysburg ; Twelfth Corps, via Two Taverns, to near 
Gettysburg ; Gregg's Division, to Hanover Junction ; Mcintosh's and 
J. I. Gregg's brigades, to Hanover ; Henry's Brigade returned to Man- 
chester ; Kilpatrick's Division, from Hanover, via Abbottsville, to Ber- 
lin; Artillery Reserve (Ransom's and Fitzhugh's brigades), to Gettysburg. 
First day's battle of Gettysburg. 

General Meade's order on the expected battle was read to us before 
we started. The division left camp two miles beyond Uniontown at 
5 A.M. (July 1st). Hearing of Confederate cavalry, skirmishers and 
flankers were thrown out; the division moved thus several miles. About 
2 P. M. were halted on the Pennsylvania State line ; at 3 p.m. were 
addressed by General Crawford. We then moved on till we came to a 
line open woods, where we rested till dark. All day we gathered 
(cherries from the overloaded trees along the road side. The turnpikes 
along which we marched the greater part of the day were white, hot 
and dusty. We passed Kilpatrick's battlefield at Hanover in afternoon. 
At dark we resumed the march, which we continued without halt till 
tiawn, when, utterly exhausted, we dropped down, compelling a halt of 
the division. After resting an hour we again took up the march and 
(continued it mostly across country untU 12.30 p.m., when we arrived on 
the battlefield, on the Baltimore Pike, in rear of the centre of the armj-. 
Our division, in very hot weather, marched in the worst possible manner, 
accomplished nearly seventy miles in three and a half days, and on the 
afternoon and evening of the fourth day weut to the top of Big Round 
Top. 

In the meantime, General Buford left Middleburg, Md., on 29th, 



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arrived at Gettysburg on 30th ; passin- througli Gettysburg at uooa 
(June 30), he reconnoitered west and north of that town. He aiw the 
advantages of the Gettysburg position and he determined to Lold it 
until he was driven away or reUeved by infantry. The night of June JJOth 
he notified General Reynolds, "That HilFs Confederate corps Ma.s 
camped nine miles west of Gettjsburg and I.ongstreet's behind Hill's ; 
that no Confederate force had yet passed through the mountains from 
the north toward Gettysburg, but that such force would soon be at 
Heidlersburg." This information was subsequently shown to be 
correct. 

General Meade had directed General Reynolds, " That if he ha.s to 
fall back, to do so on Emmitsburg ; that the Third and Twelfth corps 
will come to the assistance there of his and the Eleventh Coqjs." When 
General Reynolds reached Gettysbui-g at 8.35 a.m., July 1st, General 
Buford was with his artUIery and dismounted skirmishers "standing off " 
Hill's troops. General Reynolds joined General Buford in the Seminary 
tower, and as old companions in arms, with perfect confidence in eacli 
other, they discussed the position and the n ilitaty situation. General 
Reynolds decided at once to support General Buford. He saw that, if 
his troops were brought up promptly to this position, General Lee 
could be made to take the offensive, or be compelled to faU back with 
his whole force without fighting, and thus, if a battle took place here, 
the Union army would be enabled to fight on the defensive. 

General Buford promised to hold on until General Reynolds' infan- 
try and batteries could get up. General Reynolds felt sure that his 
corps with the Eleventh could hold this position until the Tliird and 
Twelfth could reinforce him. The information he had of the Confeder- 
ate army showed that it was as badly scattered as was the Union. 
Four corps of the Union army could reach this gi-ound by the early 
afternoon, and the Second Corps by sundown-force sufficient with 
proper management and good fightmg to withstand General Lee's army 
commg up from several directions until the whole Union army could 
be assembled. 

It was most fortunate for the Union side that it had sucii intelli- 
gent and energetic generals in advance as Reynolds and Buford, and 
generals who had the confidence of the Army Commander. General 
Meade's giving General Reynolds (a fighting general) his advance with 
three corps proved to that general, as to the world, that General Meade 
was not attempting to avoid a battle. He was only anxious that the 



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fight which must take place should be a defensive one on his side, if 
possible. 

Shortly after his arrival, as soon as he had taken a look at the 
ground from the Seminary tower and had had a few minutes' conversation 
with Ger.eral Buford, General Reynods (who was a most accomplished 
artilleryman), seeing what fine ground lay in every direction to the front 
for artillery (the arm well known to preponderate in the Army of the 
Potomac— more powerful and more numerous than Lte's — the only arm 
in which it was believed the Union army was superior), a battlefield to 
make an artilleryman grow enthusiastic, requested General Buford to 
hold on till his (Reynolds) Latteries and infantry could get up. 

He sent off in hot haste several officers for his own and the Eleventh- 
Corps batteries, and to hurry up his own and General Howards infan- 
try. He then went to select positions for his batteries (he had brought up 
with him Captian Hall, Chief of Artillery of his leading division), so that 
no time would be lost (General Reynolds thus anticipated the present 
German instructions for battle). In a few minutes Captain Hall's bat- 
tery arrived ; it was immediately posted near General Bufoi'd's batteries. 
Soon after, the first division of Reynolds' Corps came up and was 
posted to support the First Corps and Buford's batteries. In expecta- 
tion of the early arrival of the Eleventh Corps batteries. General Rey- 
nolds now went to select a position for them. Whilst doing so he was 
struck down by a sharpshooter. He had already seized this good posi- 
tion and had given such un impetus to his command that it went on 
without a break in carrying out his designs under his able successor. 
General Doubleday. 

General Reynolds had planted the advance of the Union army in 
General Lee's route. He had secured a position across all the roads lead- 
ing east of the mountains at tli is point, where the Confederate army must 
assemble if it united east of the mountains. 

General Reynolds might have had three corps at Gettysburg earlier 
in the day, but he would not run the risk of throwing his whole force 
against Lee's main army, which might be at Gettysburg at the same 
time. He thus showed proper prudence. But when he arrived there 
in person and was satisfied that the information received from General 
Buford during the past night was correct, and that the Confederate 
army was sti.l en route to assemble at this point, he acted as the prompt 
and intelligent soldier that he was. 

General Buford's batteries and dismounted cavalry skirmishers sue- 



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ceeded ia liolding the enemy on the west side of Willouby Run till 
Wadsworth's Division arrived. Captain Hall, commaridinglheaitillery 
of this division, had preceded the infantry, and had posted his own bat- 
tery in aid of Buford's batteries, which were doing heroic service 
on the Chambersburg Road. As soon as it arrived, Cutler's Brigade 
was posted on either side ( f the Chambersburg Road, and across an old 
railroad cut, to support these batteries. Meredith's (Iron Brigadt ) was 
sent to the left of the road to occupy a piece of woods, which Hill's Con- 
federate troops were entering. The Confederate General Heth attacked 
with four of his brigades the position held by General Reynolds' force. 
The thiee right regiments of Cutler's Brigade were forced back, and 
General Reynolds ordered Meredith's Brigade to at ack across the front 
of the Confederate force. This attack was successful. The Confederate 
General Archer and many of his men were captured. These disposi- 
tions were just completed, in which his two brigades had defeated and 
almost destroyed two brigades of the enemy, when this most skillful and 
heroic general was killed. The falling back of Cutler's right left Hall"s 
battery exposed, but the Fourteenth Brooklyn, Ninety-Fifth New York,, 
and Sixth Wisconsin changed front and charged the Mississippi troops- 
attacking Hall, and captured two ML sissippi regiments ia the old rail- 
road cut. Hill's other two brigades ] ressing the Union left, Rowley's 
Division was put in here. Robinson's Division was held in reserve on 
Seminary Hill. 

Soon Rodes' Division of Ewell's Corps attacked from the direction 
of Carlisle, and Robinson's Division was advanced to meet it. Baxters 
Brigade went in on the right of Cutler and afterwards took Cutler's 
position. General Paul's Biigade wei.t in on the light cf Baxter. 
Robinson's Division resisted well Rodes' attack and captured three North 
Carolina regiments. So far the Fii st Corps had more than held its own. 
" If the Eleventh Corps had been as well handled and fought, the day 
would probably have seen no reverse." General Howard spread his two 
divisions (Barlow's and Schurz's) to the right of the First Cerps, but did 
not make strong connection with it. The Confederates seized Oak Hill, 
a prominent point between the Union corps, and charging from this 
point, turned the right of the First Corps and left of the Eleventh. 
Fortunately, General Howard had placed cue of his divisioi;s, Steiu- 
metz's, in reserve on Cemetery Hill, and the left of the First Corps fell 
back in ordt r and covered the retreat « f the artillery and ambulances, 
but near 5,000 piisoners were left in the enemy's handi!. 



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General Reynolds had, early in the day, sent word to General Meade 
ihat the enemy was in force near Cashtown and advancing on Gettys- 
burg, and that he would endeavor to Iiold Gettysburg until rtinforced. 
Soon after General Reynolds was killed the cool-headed Buford thought 
matters were not being conducted very well, and he sent a dispatch to 
the eflfect that " there seemed to be no head," and requested that some 
one be sent forward to command. It may have been in answer to this 
request that General Hancock was sent forward to take supreme com- 
mand. When he arrived matters looked badly, so much so that he, at 
first, thought the part of the army here would have to be moved back. 
Soon, however, the Union batteries got into position on the left of the 
town, and Stemmetz'd Division, with the Eleventh Corps batteries, 
shoM-ed a good front on the right, and the advantages of the position 
were explained to him, when he saw that General Lee would have to 
continue to attack, so that it was only a question whether the Union 
army could, at this point, hold its position. By sundown all was ready 
to meet an attack. 

The Umon position at this time appeared so strong that General Lee 
and his corps commanders concluded they could not assault it that 
evening with success. Thus two Union corps, even with the loss of 
their commander, had been sufficiently strong to hold the Confederate 
army for an entire day. How much easier and with how much le^s 
loss it could have been done had General Reynolds lived and been in 
command of three corps. Success is the best assurance of good general- 
ship. 

The morning of the 3d the Union force was disposed as follows : 
Twelfth Corps, Slocum, on Gulps Hill on the right ; Eleventh Cori)s, 
Howard, on Cemetery Hill, supported by Robinson's and Doubleday's 
divisions of the First Corps ; Wadsworth's Division of the First Coi-ps on 
the left cf the Twelfth Corps, on Gulp's Hill ; Second Corps, Hancock, 
to the left of the Eleventh, on Cemetery Ridge ; Third Corps, Sickles', 
massed on left cf Second, in low ground between Cemetery Ridge 
and Little Round Top ; Fifth Corps, Sykes', on Baltimore Pike, in 
reserve ; Sixth Corps, Sedgwick, coming up on Baltimore Pike, arriving 
late in the afternoon, in reserve. 

General Lee's troojjs were disposed on Seminary Ridge about one 
mile from the Union line and parallel to it. Longstreet's two divisions 
(Hood's and McLaws') at first in rear of Hill, afterwards on extreme 
right. A. P. Hill's Corps (Anderson's, Heth's and Pender's divisions) in 



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centre ; Ewell's Corps (Early's, Rodes' and Johnson's divisions) on left 
The Confederate line was about five miles long, concave to the Union 
line, which was only about three miles long. 

It seems to have been intended by the Confederates that Ewell's 
Corps should attack early on the 2J. It was thought that Longstrect 
would also be in position to attack by 9 a. m. Such was no doubt the 
understanding when the senior generals (except Longstreet) separated 
for the night of the 1st. When morning came, and the formidable posi- 
tion crowned with earthworks and artillery was seen by General Lee 
and General Ewell, General Lee (who went early to Ewell's front) hesi- 
tated to order an assault until he could have thorough reconnaisauces 
made, and imt'.l Longstreet's Corps should be up. 

General Meade, no' icing the movements of Ewell's Corps, and being 
strong himself on that flank, early in the morning ordered an attack on 
his right by the Twelfth and Fifth corps to be supported by the Sixth. 
But Slocum, commanding the Twelfth, and General Warren, Chief 
Engineer of the Army, reported the groimd unfavorable. Also, the 
Fifth Corps did not come up in good shape to attack before noon, and 
the Sixth was then far off. There has been much controversy between 
the Confederate generals since the battle as to when Longstreet ought 
to have been ready to attack, also as to time, EweU should have sup- 
ported Longstreet's attack. It would appear that General Lee sent one 
of his staff (Johnson?) early in the day to reconnoitre in front of the 
Union left. This officer went over the ground about the Peach Orchard. 
When he returned he told General Lee that this was favorable ground 
on which to make an attack. At this time the Union Third Corps was 
massed on the left of the Second. The ground on Confederate right 
consisted principally of open fields. Longstreet's command was sent in 
a roundabout way to get to the Peach Orchard position, so as not to be 
seen by the Union signal officer on Little Round Top. 

Longstreet himself was in no hurry, as he did not wish to attack 
without his third (Picket's) division. Moreover, he states that the 
agreement, on beginning tln3 invasion, was that there should be no 
offensive battle delivered by their army. If this is true General 
Reynolds is entitled to credit for making General Lee change his plan. 
Whilst Longsti-eet was moving around to the Union left Sickles was 
moving out his corps, and taking position on the Union side of the 
Peach Orchard. 

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this movement is well known. It seems to the writer that the matter 
btanUa about as follows : General Meade had been all the morning 
studying his right, with a view to attacking or receiving an attack 
there ; no report had reached him that Confederate troops, in force, 
were threatening his left. General Meado supposed his cavalry, which 
had covered itself with honor the day before, and which had been 
directed to watch that flank, vrould be able to give him early warning 
of any extensive movement of Confederate troops in that direction. 

Early in the afternoon, upon request from General Sickles to have 
ground selected for his corps to occupy. General Hunt, Chief of Artillery 
of the Army, was sent to assist General Sickles in selecting a position. 
Sickles and Hunt could not find any good line in this region vrithout 
going out very far to General Sickles' front. It is now well known 
that the ground in front of Little Round Top is a mo-t difficult region 
in which to select a line of battle. Artillery could be of little use on 
the Little Round Top line, and how far the woods and difficult country 
extended to the left front nei her Hunt nor Sickles knew. Taking into 
consideration the short time they had to select a position in so difficult 
a country, it was probably as well done as it could have been. 

Between 2 and 3 p. M. the signal officer on Little Round Top and 
the skirmishers of Sickles' command detected Longstreet's movements. 
At General Sickles' urgent request General Meade went to his left, 
about 3.30 p. m., to look up ground for Sickles' Corps. The fact seems 
to be, General Meade did not believe he would be attacked on the left. 
He thought his cavalry would certainly give him ample notice of any 
threatened attack on that front, so that he would have time to prei)are 
for it. For some reason, at this critical moment of the day there was 
no Union cavalry on the left f lont. 

General Meado arrived on his left Just as Longstreet's attack was 
beginning, and, as Sickles line was very far out in advance of Hancock, 
being ignorant of the n gion, Meade thought Sickles had moved his line 
unnecessarily far out. However, when Sickles and Hunt told him what 
a tangled place the ground was in front of Little Round Top, he con- 
cluded to reinforce Sickles where he was. Moreover, there wjis now 
no time left in which to select a new line. The subsequent loss of the 
Third Corps position was due to the fact that the Fifth and Sixth Corps 
were not brought up soon enough, the one to Sickels' support, the other 
to form a second line on the Little Round Top ritlgc. If Meade had 
been notified by his calvary of Longstreet's movement, he would cer- 



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tainly have had the Fifth and Sixth Corps in place to meet this attack. 
Upon what small matters may turn the fate of a battle ! TJie new 
position of Sickles brought Iluraphrey's Division several hundred yards 
to the left front of the Second Corps, and posted on the Emmittsburg 
road, (Graham's Brigade of Birney's Division on the same road, on 
Humphrey's left, reaching to the Peach Orchard; Ward's r:nd 
De Trobriand's brigades stretched back to the rear at right angles 
t.i Graham's Brigade, in front respectively of the Wheatfield and 
Devil's Den. 

Longstreet's attack (with infantry) began about 4 p. m. He conceu- 
ti-ated his artillery opposite the angle of Sickles' Cjrps at the Peach 
Orchard and opened such a concentrated fire on the Union artilleiy at 
this point as to overwhelm it. He then began his attack with his infan- 
try, on his right, with Hood's Division, which pushed into the woods 
and outflanked the Third Corps on its left. Law's Brigade cf Hood's 
Division, on extreme Confederate right, went over Big Round Top, 
coming out upon Union ambulances, but Law's Brigade had moved too 
far to its right, had lost connection with balance of Hood's command, 
and it was ordered to move to its left. Hood's other brigades broke 
through the left of De Trobriand's line and began to pass up and around 
Little Round Top. 

The Union left being thus flanked and beginning to give way, 
McLaws' Division was pushed in on Hood's left, carrying the centre of 
tlie Third Corps' position. This corps was too weak to hold so long 
a line. The Union troops M^r.uld now have had to fall back but that 
reinforcements began to arrive just as the Confederates reached the 
Union position. Humplu-eys, who was not at first attacked, sent 
Burling's Brigade to Birney's assistance. The whole Fifth Corps was 
ordered up to the support of Birney's line ; Barnes' First Division arrived 
first, Tilton's and Sweitzer's brigades going in near the Peach Orchard; 
Vincent's Brigade, at the request of General Warren, Chief Engineer, 
to Little Round Top. Then came Caldwell's Division of the Second 
Corps to the Wheatfield, where its right was turned, and then two 
brigades of the Second Division of Fifth Corps to the Wheatfield, 
where they had scarcely arrived wlien their right was turned and tliey 
retreated to the position from which they had started, on the right of 
Little Round Top. 

Soon McLaws' attack was supported by Anderson's Division of A. 
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was driven back from the Emmittsburg Road. Hancock sent two 
regiments of Gibbon's Division and Willard's Brigade of Hay's Division 
to assist Humphreys. General Sickles was here wounded, and Hancock, 
assuming command of the Third Corpp, sent two additional regiments to 
help Humphreys. Finally General Meade brought Tip Stannard's 
Brigade, and a mmiber of batteries were posted on Hancock's line and 
the Sixth Corps came up and took the position on the right of Tiifctle 
Round Top, from wliich the Third Corps had moved out. 

In the meantime, Hood's troops had made a desperate effort to 
carry Little Round Top and the ravine between it and Big Round Top. 
General "Warren, Chief Engineer, going early in the action to the signal 
station on Little Round Top, had seen Hood's troops approaching that- 
position. The Signal Service men were about leaving when Warren 
arrived. He ordered them to remain, and he hurried off for troops to 
put on Little Round Top. The Fifth Corps was coming up, and as he 
had formerly served most gallantly in command of a brigade of that 
corps, his request for a brigade was immediately answered by .General 
Bam&«i, who sent Vincent's' Brigade, which, moving at a double quick, 
beat the Texans of Hood's command to the top of Little Round Top. 
The fighting for this hill was fierce, Law's Brigade pushing through 
between Little and Big Round Top contended with Vincent for this 
ravine. Vincent was soon supported by Weed's Brigade of Second 
Division, Fiftfj Corps, and Hazlett's battery was carried to the top of 
Li'.tle Round Top. When the ammunition of Vincent's and Weed's 
brigades was expended (both these brigade commanders being killed) 
Fisher's Third Brigade, P. R. V. C, was hurried to their support. By 
this time the Confederates had become exhausted, and those who had 
not fallen back were captured. 

Upon arriving on the battlefield, about 13.80 p. M., the Twelfth 
Regiment, as the entire division of Reserves, was given time to rest and 
make a full meal, the first since leaving Frederick, Md. As soon as we 
had feasted many of the mounted ofl&cers of the division started cut to 
see the line of battle. We rode up to the rear of the town of Gettys- 
burg, then moved along the line of battle to General Meade's head- 
quarters, where we had a conversation with some ofiicers, then startc d 
to ride down General Hancock's line, when we heard the commence- 
ment of Sickles' fight. 

We galloped over to our camp, where we fovmd the Fifth Corps 
moving off to Sickles' support. The First Division of the corps led, fol- 



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lowed by the Second Division. Tlien came oi:r division, Third Brigade 
leading, which at this time was well filled and closed up. We moved 
westerly along a wood road, and foon came to a part where the road 
was narrow and corduroyed, a fence on one side and brush on the 
other, woods on both sides. As we advanced we began to meet 
wounded men returning. Soon the road was so encumbered with 
wounded walking to the rear and ambulances going the same way, we 
had to take to the woods along side of the road. This caused some 
delay. Advancing by so mar y wounded we felt there was serious work 
ahead for us. We filed up on the north side of the ridge to the right of 
Little Round Top. The ground here was n cky and covered with thick 
brush. Some little time was taken in getting into position. Eventually 
we got into line by brigade froni, Third Brigade in front. 

We then advanced to the crest of the ridge. As we reached the 
crest we got our first view of the battle on the left; it was not a reassur- 
ing sight. The whoTe valley between us and the ridge opposite, about a 
third of a mile off, was filled with our retreating soldiers and batteries, 
thousands of the soldiers wounded and all the batteries disabled. Some 
of the men, especially toward the left front, were retreating at a run. 
The enemy's line was only visible by the white puffs of smoke at the 
crest of the opposite ridge. Very few of our men were firing ; a man 
now and then would stop and take a shot. This great mass of thous- 
ands in the valley was moving sullenly to the rear at a walk. There 
seemed no organized force, a mere mass of men, officers and men inex- 
tricably mixed — all seeking safety behind the ridge upon which we 
stood. A battery was making its way into position in the imderbrush 
on our right, and a few guns in position on the ridge to our left (since 
known as Little Round Top) were firing slowly at the enemy in the 
woods beyond the opposite ridge. 

As soon as the division got into position, there being a luU in the 
action at this time, the writer rode up the ridge to the left to get a look 
at the ( nemy's position. When near the top he met a i)arty of officers 
and men carrying General Weed, who was mortally wounded ; the 
writer, who knew the (xeneral personally, stopped to see if lie covild be 
of any service ; whilst conversing here another party came along, 
bringing back his old friend. Lieutenant "Cog" Hazlet, who in the haste 
of going into action had forgotten that fatal white hat. He was shot 
through the head, probably by the same sharpshooter who had killed 
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Finding he could see little more here than at the position the division 
occupied, the writer started down ; he met the Twelfth Regiment com- 
ing up wi:h the Third Brigade, except the Eleventh Regiment. We 
scramhled up and over Little Round Top and moved down the left front, 
going to the assistance of Vincent's Brigade. As the Third Brigade 
mov«d away the First Brigade was ordered to advance to the front. 
The Eleventh Regiment being still on the ground when the First Brigade 
came up to the front line, joined that brigade and advanced with it. 
We saw the First Brigade and Eleventh Regiment make their gallant 
advance tlirough the retreating multitude, as we clambered over the 
rocks on top of Little Round Top. We joined in their cheer and started 
at a double quick down the left front of Little Round Top, ^tumbling 
over rocks and the numerous dead of Vincent's and Weed's gallant 
brigades. As we advanced a few scattering shots came from tlie retiring 
enemy. Our advance was most fortunate, as Vincent's and Weed's 
brigades had expended all their ammunition. The Confederates (several 
hundred) remaining between Big and Little Round Top, seeing and 
hearing our advance, laid down their arms and became prisoners to the 
brigades which were so well entitled to receive them. 

Darkness ended the contest. Thus our small division, coming on the 
field in the nick of time, and advancing boldly, turned the tide of 8ucc^.s8 
on the left, and the enemy's great efforts on this front were rendered 
entirely futile. • 

About 9 P. M. Colonel Fisher, commanding Third Brigade Pennsyl- 
vania Reserves Division, with the consent of the Division Commander, 
ordered an advance up Big Round Top. The Twentieth Maine deployed 
as skirmishers ; the Fifth and Twelfth Reserves followed in support in 
line of battle. The skirmishers started promptly, but on account of the 
darkness and difficulty of deploying into line in this rough place, it was 
some minutes after they started before the line of the Fifth and 
Twelfth followed. 

The skirmishers went promptly to the top of the mountain ; only 
an occasional shot was fired by the Cofederates. The Fifth and 
Twelfth advanced at the word. of command, given in Colonel Fisher's 
stentorian tones. The line upon advancing, in utter darkness, was 
almost immediately broken, and became confused by the rocky, precipi- 
tous and difficult ground. Officers became separated from their men, 
but all pushed on up the mountain ; when about one-tliird Avay up all 
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the different regiments became intermingled. The commanding oflBcera 
of the brigade and regiments began caUing (o each other ; the rocks and 
woods resoimded witli their cries. It is said, and no doubt with good 
reason, that the Confederate troops stationed at this lime on the moun- 
tain, hearing all this noise, and knowing that the Sixth Corps had 
lately arriv^ed, believing that whole corj^s was about taking station on 
Big Round Top, hastily retreated down their side of the mountain. The 
confusion was so great that officers and men of Fifth and Twelfth con- 
cluded to return to the position they had started from, the valley 
between Little Round Top and Big Round Top. 

In making this ascent a number of Confederate prisoners fell into 
the possession of members of Fifth and Twelfth regiments. A squad of 
officers and men (about seventy) in which the writer found himself, 
upon first descending to the foot of the mountain, sent forward two men 
to investigate the first camp fires seen. These scouts were answered by 
members of the Fifteenth Alabama. Our party then, after discussion, 
concluded to move around the mountain side toward the left or south, 
in which direction we were sure of finding the Sixth Corps pickets. 
We in this way, after an hour's very hard march, foimd the Vermont 
Brigade pickets, and went at once to our starting point. In the mean- 
time, about all the members of the Fifth and Twelfth had found their 
way back to the same place. The Twentieth Maine skirmishers, finding 
themselves unsupported, had returned to this starting point. 

The writer now suggested that our brigade march up the mountain 
by the flank, the Twentieth Maine skirmishers leading as before; this 
plan was adopted. Advancing in this manner all soon reachtd the top 
in good order. The Twelfth on the crest, the Fifth on its right; the 
Twentieth Maine skirmishers remained out as pickets toward the left 
front. The Fifth and Twelfth regiments threw out pickets in their front 
and to connect with the troops on the right. The Ninth and Tenth 
Resei-ve 5 had been left in line across the ravine between Little and Big 
Round Tops. Two regiments of Vincent's Brigade were posted in the 
interval between the right of the Fifth Reserves and the Ninth and Tenth 
Reserves, but almost at right angles to the general line. (As shown by 
map accompanying Vincent's Brigade Coinmander's report.) The line 
remained thus till daylight, when a regular connected line was made 
from the top of Big Round Top to and across the ravine between Little 
and Big Round Tops, and stone breastworks were thrown up (which 
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both Bidea. Jiily 3d Frank H. Hencli, Compaiiy " A," was killed, and 
Private James Aikens, Company " (!," wounded, in the Twelfth Regi- 
ment. 

A member of the Twelfth writes : "On the ir.orning of the 5th a 
skirmish line, a detail of the Twelfth and Fifth, was sent out to feel for 
the enemy. I was one of the members. I have a very vivid recollec- 
tion of what we saw, antl how cautiously we approached the stone 
walls, the earthworks and entered the woods. We found no enemy, 
however, except a Georgian , sleeping by a tree in the wc ods. He was 
somewhat surprised when he awoke and found himself surrounded by 
Yankees. Going a little farther we met some Sisters of Charity in an 
ambulance coming to the battlefield. They told us that the enemy 
were in full retreat and eight miles away. We then returned to the 
regiments." 

The Confederates on their right at dark (2d) slowly withdrevsr to the 
line the Third Union Corps had held. Ewell began his attack on Conftd- 
erate left about sunset. He found the Union line stripped on its left. 
There was nothing 1 ut Green's Brigade of Twelfth Corps on Union right. 
Early attacked Cemetery Hill and Johnson, Gulp's Hill, Early's attack 
was gallantly made, but failed. Johnson carried the Union works on 
his left, and remained in possession there. The result of the day's fight- 
ing has been described as follows: " Longstreet had carried the whole 
front, on which the Third Corps had been drawn. Ewell's left was 
thrust within the breastworks on the Union right, in a position which, 
if held by liim, would enable him to take Meade's entire line in reverse, 
and the Union loss in the two day's combat had already reached the 
frightful aggregate of upwards of twenty thousand. But the army 
and corps commanders on Union side that night were unanimous for 
fighting it out here." 

If this is a just summary of the result of the two days' fighting, was 
not General Lee justified in ordering the assault on the Union centre ? 
If that had yielded at all, would not Longstreet's two divisions on Con- 
federate right, and Ewell's w hole corps on the left have followed up the 
success and overwhelmed the Union army ? We now know that an attack, 
made in broad daylight, over open ground, against good troops, armed 
with modern weapons, although made strictly in accordance with tlie 
battle tactics of Frederick II. or Napoleon, must fail, as witness this 
grand attack and many made by General Grant's aimy whilst en route 
to Eichmond. In this third day's magnificent assault and heroic defence 



our regiment was only a deeply interested spectator. The grand scene 
was clearly in view to any member of the regiment who would chance 
his life against the deadly sharpshooter by raising his head above the 
stone breastworks. 

The First Brigade of the Reserves, under command of Colonel 
McCandless, advanced late in the afternoon of the 3d, and by its bold 
and skillful movements defeated a force more than twice its strength, 
and recovered all the groimd lost by the Union army on the 2a. The 
Third Brigade remained in the breastworks on Big Round Top until 
the morning of the 5th, when it moved off with the Fifth Corps toward 
Emmettsbm-g. The enemy withdrew the night of the 8d and morning 
of the 4th. Their absence being soon detected, many of us took advan- 
tage of this opportunity to visit the battlefield on the left and centre. 

The criticism of General Meade for not attacking the Confederates 
after Gettysburg was refuted by subsequent events. 

What chance had General Meade, with a force no larger than the 
enemy's, when General Grant with double the enemy's force in his 
repeated assaults (whilst en route to Petersburg) suffered such heavy 
losses and accomplished so Uttle. 

General Lee's concave position enabled him to utilize his large 
reserve artillery, both for connecting his wings and to crush tliat of 
tlie Union army. The artillery of Union army had to be concentrated 
too much. (On the third day on Cemetery Hill the guns were only a 
yard apart). The defects of General Lee's position were such that he 
was unable to make his troops, on so long a line, act together, and to 
reinforce either wing promjitly. These defects had much to do with 
the failure of liis attacks. If he had entrenched his centre and one of 
his flanks (wings) and had used his main army on his other wing, he 
might have succeeded in dislodgiog the Union army. 

The numbers actually engaged were nearly equal. The Confeder- 
ates were the stronger the first day, the two sides about equal the 
second day, the Union force stronger the third day. The losses, July 
1-S(by A. G. O.) were: "Union 23,003; Confederate 20,451. Note.— 
Confederate prisoners by name, wounded and unwounded, 12,227. Medi- 
cal Director A. P. reported 6,802 Confederates wounded." 

The latest estimate of the numbers actually engaged is : 69,000 Con- 
federates, with 250 guns ; 80',000 Union, with 350 guns. 

In this estimate not sufficient allowance has been made for the 
filling up of the Confederate regiments with drafted men and couvales- 



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cents. Tlie Alabama regiments received many such ; the Fifteenth Ala- 
bama had 700 men present ; the Maryland regiments were quite strong,, 
one company had ninety men, etc. Moreover, the Conftderates could 
have few stragglers, as they were in an enemy's country, and two corps 
made very easy marches to the battlefield, whereas the Fifth and Sixth, 
two cf the largest of the Union Corps, made very hard, forced marches 
to reach the battlefield. Still farther, the Confederates had always 
fewer men, proportionately, on extra and daily duty than the Union 
army, consequently they had more muskets in fine in proportion to 
number of men present. For these reasons the writer thinks the above 
estimate decidedly in favor of the Confederates. 

Extracts from Pennsylvania Reserve Division records as follows : 
"Headquarters Pennsylvania Reserves, July 2, 1863, on the field near 
Gettysburg, 3 p. m. Colonel; brigade commanders will hold their com- 
mands in readiness for an immediate movement. In case of an attack 
upon our left, we will be called upon to resist it, and they wUl make the 
dispositions now. The Third Brigade will take tlie right; keep the men 
in camp, let them rest. Towards evening the command will be 
marched by the left flank to the field on the left to a point to be indi- 
cated by a staff officer who will be sent. Very respectfully, your obedi- 
ent servant, 

S. W. Crawford, Brigadier-General Commanding." 

"Headquarters Pennsylvania Reserves, on the field near Gettys- 
burg, July 2, 1863, 10 P. M. General : I have the honor to report to you 
that I have just come in from the line of skirmishers in my front. We 

hold the field in advance of the woods beyond the ; our hne is 

diagonal; we hold all the woods on the right and half the woods on the 
left. I have no troops on either flank, and hold my advance position 
without assistance. My skirmishers report that they hear the enemy 
beyond. The battery in the road directly in front was withdrawn at 
simdown. I pushed my men into the woods beyond, but they were 
fired on. I would also report to you that I sent two regiments from 
Third Brigade of my division to take the high grounds on the left; they 
now hold the position. From a heutenaut of Georgia troops who was 
captured, having come into the lines while I was in front, I hear that 
the force that we have been fighting to-day is under Longstreet, also 
that General Lee is with the Rebel army. I respectfully ask instruc- 
tions what to do witli tlie brigade of niy division now in front. Its 
flanks are not protected, and its position very exposed. The niunber of 



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"wotinded belonging to the First and Hecond divisions of this corps is 
large; they are lying uncared for. Very respectfully, your obedient 
servant, 

S. W, Ckawford, Brigadier-General Commanding Division." 
'* July 4, 1863. Near Gettysburg. Report of arms captured : First 
Brigade, 3,072 ; Third Brigade, 600 ; total, 3,673. Also one Napoleon 
p,un and three caissons." 

Extracts from General Cravi^ford's report: "The Third Brigade, 
under Colonel Fisher, was detailed and moved at once (' to the left of 
Barnes' Division on the crest of the ridge '). The firing in front was 
heavy and incessant. The enemy concentrated his forces oppo ite the 
It ft of our line, was throwing them in heavy masses upon our troope, 
and was advancing. Our troops in front, after a determined resistance, 
unable to withstand the force of the enemy, fell back, and some finally 
gave away. The plain to my front was covered with fugitives from all 
divisions, who rushed through my lines and along the road to the 
rear. 

Fragments of regiments came back in disorder and without their 
arms, and for a moment all seemed lost. The enemy's skirmishers 
had reached the foot of the rocky ridge; his cohunns w^ere following 
rapidly. 

My command was forn«ed in two lines, the second massed upon the 
first. The Sixth Regiment, Colonel Ent, on the right, the First, Colonel 
Talley, on the left, and the Eleventh Regiment of Fisher's Brigade, 
under Colonel Jackson, in the centre. The second line, consisting of 
the Firet Riles (Bucktails), Colonel Taylor, and the Second Regiment, 
Lieutenant-Colonel Woodward ; Colonel McCandless commanded the 
whole. Not a moment was to be lost ; uncovering our front, I ordered 
our immediate advance. The command advanced gallantly with loud 
cheers. Two well directed volleys were delivered upon the advancing 
masses of the enemy, when the whole column charged at a run down 
the slope, driving the enemy lack across the space beyond and across 
the stone wall, for the possession of which there was a short but 
determined struggle. 

The enemy retired to the Wheatfield and the woods. The second 
line was immedieately deployed to the left. The First Rifles (Bucktails), 
under their gallant I ader. Colonel Tayl( r, gaining the Cank and dashing 
upon the enemy, who endeavoring for a moment to make a s'and, 
finally broke and fltd in disorder across the field, leaving Lis dead and 



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wounded in our hands. As night was approaohmg and my flanks were 
unprotected, I directed Colonel McCandless to hold the line of the stone 
wall and the woods on the right. Heavy lines of skirmishers were 
thrown out and the ground firmly and permanently held. 

I then rode to the left, towards Fiaher s Brigade. Upon ascending 
the crest of the ridge I found, from the report of that officer as wdl as 
from Colonel Rice, of Barnes' Division, that the Round Top was still in 
possession of the enemy's skirmishers, who were firing upon cur men. 
It was important to hold tliis hill, as from its position it commanded 
that part of our line. I directed Colonel Fisher to occupy it at once. 
He immediately detached the Twelfth, under Colonel Hardin, and the 
Fifth, under Lieutenant-Colonel Dare, and the Twentieth Maine, under 
Colonel Chamberlain, who advanced promptly, driving the enemy before 
them, capturing over tliirty prisoners. 

During the night the division commanded by General Bartlett, of 
Sixth Corps, was moved up to my support. At 5 o'clock on the 3d I 
received orders * * * to advance that portion of my command 
which was holding the ground retaken on the left, and which stUl held 
the line of the stone wall in front, to enter the woods, and if possible 
drive out the enemy. It was supposed the enemy had evacuated the 
position. I proceeded at once to the spot, and directed the movement 
to be made. 

McCandless' Brigade, with the Eleventh Regiment, under Colonel 
Jackson, were ordered to advance, throwing out skirmishers toward the 
right, in the direction of a battery established by the enemy about noon, 
and which was plainly visible. I requested General Bartlett to move 
up one of his regiments to the stone wall from w-hich I advanced, and 
also to throw a force towards my right to protect that flank. The men 
of his command moved promptly into position and rendered eflScient 
service. The movement had hardly begun before this battery opened 
with grape and canister. The woods on the right were soon cleared. 
As soon as our skirmishers approached the battery it ceased firing and 
fled. The line was then formed, and under the immediate direction of 
Colonel McCandless, dashed across the Wheatfield and into the upper 
end of the woods. The enemy's skirmishers were driven back as he 
advanced, and the upper end of the woods was now cleared. The com- 
mand then changed front and charged through the entire length of the 
woods. 

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composed of Georgia troops, were encountered. It had taken position 
beJiind a stone wall running through the woods, and which they had 
made stronger by rails and logs. We fell upon their flank, comnlelely 
routing them, taking over 200 prisoners, and one stand of colors! The 
colors were taken by Sergeant John B. Thompson, Company - G," First 
Rifles. Another brigade, under General Robertson, and composed of 
Texas troops, which lay concealed beyond the woods, and near the foot 
of the ridge, ran, as reported by the prisoners, without firing a sliot. 
■" * * They (the enemy at tliis point) greatly outnumbered us ; but 
the rapidity of the movement and the gallant dash of my men com- 
pletely surprised and routed them. They fell back, nearly a mile to a 
second ridge and entrenched themselves. By this charge of McCandless' 
Brigade and the Eleventh Regiment, Colonel Jackson, the whole of the 
ground lost the previous day was retaken, together with aU of our 
wounded, who, mingled with those of the rebels, were lying uncared 
for. The dead of both sides lay in lines in every direction, and the 
large number of our own men showed how fierce had been the struggle 
and how faithfully and how persistently they had contested the field 
agamst the superior masses of the e-.emy. 

The result of this movement was the recovery of all the ground lost 
by our troops, one twelve-pounder Napoleon gun and three caissons and 
upwards of 7,000 stand of arms ; large piles of these arms were found on 
brush heaps ready to be burned. * * * Colonel Taylor, the gallant 
and brave leader of the Bucktails, fell while leading his regiment to the 
charge. * * * ^^reat credit is due to Colonel McCandless, command- 
ing the First Brigade, for his management of his brigade and the prompt 
and faithful execution of the order given him in face of a gallin'^ fire 
on the 2d, and for the rapid and sucnessful dash upon the enemy on the 
3d, and I recommend him especially to the notice of the Major-General 
commanding the corps. 

To Colonel Fisher, commanding Third Brigade, great credit is due 
m early realizing the importance of the occupation of Round Top and in 
promptly and successfully occupying it. The enemy would have 
undou'ited'y occupied it durmg the night." 

Extracts from report of Colonel Fi.her, commanding Third Bri^^ade • 
•' * * ^"-a^-^'hed my brigade to the left of General Sykes-Corp^ 
bemg the extreme left of the Army of the Potomac, and at once 
engaged the enemy, although very shortly afterwards he retired leav- 
ing large numbers of his killed .nd wounded on the field. Soon after 



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the close of the fight of the 2d, I discovered in my immediate front 
a hill called Round Top, from the summit of which the enemy was doing 
us great damage. I thought it highly important that we should at once 
occupy it. I accordingly took two regiments of my brigade, viz. , Fifth, 
Lieutenant-Colonel Dare, end Twelfth, Colonel Hardin, and the Twen- 
titth Maine, commanded by Colonel Chamberlain, and at 10 p. m. 
ascended the hill, which was occupied by a fi'll brigade of the enemy. 
"We went up steadily in line of battle" (?) " taking over thirty prisoners 
in our ascent. In the morning I discovered that the hill was of 
inamense importance to us, * * * I beg leave to call attention to the 
conduct of Colonel Hardin, of Twelfth Ke-iment, who was still suffer- 
ing from wounds received at (second) Bull Run ; Lieutenant-Colonel D;ire 
of the Fifth Regiment, who was also wounded at Fredericksburg ; 
* * * Colonel Warner, of the Tenth Regiment, who is still so lame 
from wounds received at Antietara as to te unable to walk wiihout 
support, * * * and Lieutenant-Colonel Snodgrass of the Ninth Regi- 
ment • * * * while all the subordinate field officers are deserving 
of special mention, especially Major Larrimer, of Fifth, who, suffering 
from acute rheumatism, refused to remain out of the ba tie. * * « 
The members of my staff, Lieutenant Wiight, A. A. G. ; Captain 
Howard, Inspector ; Lieutenant Chamberlain and Lieutenant Kerns, 
aides. * * * My brigade captured and turned in to the proper 
officer.s over 1,000 stand of arms, brought off over 200 wounded Rebels 
and buried eighty of their dead. * * * " 



AFTER GETTYSBURG. 

"Woodward says : " At 5 P. M. , July 5th, we moved off in a south- 
westerly direction, over exceedingly bad roads, and at midnight bivou- 
acked in an opi n fit Id. The next morning, about 11, we marched to 
the State line, where General Meade's congratulatory address was read 
to us, and we bivouacked." "W^e moved at 4 o'clock the next morning, 
passed near Emmettsburg, and continuing along the base cf the South 
Mountain, marching in fields skirting the pike, passed through Grace- 
ham and Cregarstown, bivouacked, at dark, six miles from Fred, rick, 
having made twenty-one miles, over very bad roads. March( d at 6 
A. M. on 8th, heading neaily west ; passed over the Cotoctin Mountains 
and through Middletown, and camped about one mile south of the latt r 
place. The next morning marched i.t 6, and soon after he;ud heavy 
cannonading. Passed near KeedysvUle and La Roy : we struck Antie am 



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Greek, at Delamont Mill«, where the enemy had been that momingj 
.leaving behind a cavahy picket. We halted here and threw out 
skirmishers, who forced the enemy back to the Potomac. 

The Fif h Corps followed its skirmishers slowly and bivouacked on 
top of the hill on west side of the Antietam. We thought our corps 
commander displayed little energy in finding the enemy or in following 
his skirmibhers. We thought our part of the army could have reached 
the Potomac easily that afternoon if its commander so desired. It 
began to look as t ough it were intended that Lee fchould be allowed to 
cross the Potomac w ithout another fight, if he wished. On the morn- 
ing of the 11th our corx)s moved forward near to Sharpsburgh and Hagers- 
town Pike, where our division was deployed in line of battle, and rested 
until 4 P. M., at which time the division moved forward, in co'umns of 
companies, with regiments at deploying diotarce, with skirmishers in 
front and the pioneers pulling down fences. Having advanced about 
two mile?, we halted aLd bivouacked. The 12th and 13tli, the division 
made slight changes in position. The night of the 13th the Confederates 
retreated across the Potomac. The Union army followed, on 14th, to 
Falling Waters. Some of the rear guard of the Confederate army was 
capturtd, but main force crossed safely. 

It is not b. heved any great effort was made on Union side to stop 
the Confederate army from crossing the Potomac, nor is it believed 
that any attack by the Union army at this time and place would have 
had any favorable result. 

On the 15th of July our division (which was now near Williams- 
port) marched; ret acing our steps, passed near Delamont and over 
Antietam battlefield, and encamped near eastern base of South Moun- 
tains. Moved at 5 a. m. on IGJi, skirting along the base of South 
Mountain through Burkettsville and PetersalFs and halted about two 
miles from B^^rlin. Our wagons came up and we had the first change of 
clothing since leaving Washington. It rained all night until 4 P. M. on 
17th, wlien we moved to the Potomac and cro-sed at Berlin and bivou- 
acked three mJes beyond Lovettsville, being the first infantry that had 
crossed. On 18th marched to Wheatland, on 19th marched t ) Purcell- 
ville, o 1 20th moved at 4 A. M. ; marched almost o^er the same ground 
that we did 'ast year under McClellan, passing by PhilamontanJ our old 
camp n. ; r UnioJtown, and encamped at noon near Goose Creek (near 
Upperviile). 

On 2:J»1 marched to Rector town, on 23d to Manasses Gap (one of the 



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longest and hardest of our marches). On 24th, at 7 A. M., marched up 
the Manassas Gap Railroad, and moving to the right formed in columns 
of divisions, and moved in by the right flank and advanced uj) the side 
of a steep mountain covered with timber and brush, acting as a reserve 
in the battle of Wapping Heights. Whilst the division was moving 
over some open ground where the tiring between a part of the Third 
Corps and the enemy could be seen on the mountain side far in our 
front, a soldier near the head of our column broke suddenly out of 
ranks and rushed at full speed to the rear; his. headlong speed carried 
him through several of tiie advancing lines before he could be stopped. 
He had become fairly a maniac from fear. He was placed under 
close guard and taken along with the command. Upon inquiry it was 
learned that this soldier had been specially noted for courage in former 
battles, that he had been wounded in the last one he was in. He had 
since Gettysburg returned to duty with his company. It was so singu- 
lar a case it was deemed best to return him to duty without trial (his 
trial would have been fatal to him); he redeemed his character with his 
life's blood in a subsequent battle. 

" On 25th, reveille at 3 a. m., moved at 6 a. M. ; retraced our steps ; 
were so short of provisions the men were living on blackberries. On 
26th marched at 5 A. M. ; at noon halted in a clover field, having made 
a march of thirteen miles, with a halt of but fifteen minutes. General 
Crawford was saluted with cry of * crackers.' At 4 P. M. marched 
again, passing to the west of Warrenton, and encamped in a low open 
field, where we were troubled with mosquitoes for the first time during 
the war. The next morning, at 5, marched towards Fayetteville, near 
which we halted. On 28th moved one mUe for water. On 1st AugiLst 
marched toward Warrenton and bivouacked. Considerable cannon- 
ading in direction of Sulphur Springs. On 3d moved at 8 A. M. about 
three miles to our old bivouac of 26th ulfc. Weather so hot some men 
were sunstruck. We remained here till dark, when we marched to our 
old bivouac of 28th, where we laid two hours, when we marched, cir- 
cuitously, eight miles and camped within two miles of our last bivouac, 
on our old c.imp ground of November last. On 8th marched early, and 
at noon arrived at Rappahannock Station, where formed regular camp. 
These (latter) movements were made to deceive the enemy while we 
sent off troops to suppress the riot in New York." 

We remained in camp, near Rappahannock Station till September 
16th. Dug wells, made screened sinks, placed brush over the shelter 



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tents, built bough arbors and made ourselves as comfortable as possible. 
Clothing and full rations were issued. Sutlers, wiih full supplies, joined 
their commands. Daily papers received, bathing in Rappahannock, 
daily drills and camp amusements filled up the time. This camp and 
the next below Culpeper, were the most agreeable we had during our 
term of service. The writer was unfortunately absent at the " Meade 
Sword Presentation," which was one of the most interesting events 
(August 28, 1863) in the history of the Reserves. He heard the " boys" 
had a good time. 

Orders were issued on the loth of September to march ; moved 
at 8 A. M. on 16th, crossed the Rappahannock at Beverly Ford and moved 
to Mountain Run. Early next morning marched and passed through 
Culpeper Court House and camped four miles beyond. Remained 
here till October 10th ; made same kind of camps as last on the Rappa- 
hannock. Added to our former amusements that of horseback riding, 
"cutting heads," sabre exercises, etc., and had brigade drills. The 
Second Corps, General Warren commanding, was located near us. 
Some of his officers and many from the cavalry came to the riding 
exerc ses. At every exercise one rider at least suddenly and unex- 
pectedly dismounted, to the amusement of the spectators. The cavalry 
officers were no more proficient either in riding or sabre exercises than 
the other mounted officers. 



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CHAPTER XII 



BRISTOE STATION, RAPPAHANNOCK STATION AND 
MINE RUN. 

On October 10th the division moved at 2 A. M. toward Culpeper 
Court House, and then turning to the left marched around Pony 
Mountain and bivouacked at Raccoon Ford, where we remained until 
2 A. M., 11th, when we mai'ched back to our old camp. 

Soon after returning to camp t"he division moved as rear guard to 
the army; passing through Culpeper Court House, continued in direction 
of Rappahannock Station. Upon our arrival opposite the station the 
division was drawn up in line of battle, in which position it remained 
until night, when it crossed the river, and we bivouacked in our old 
camp of August and September last. Early in the morning of the 12 th 
we recrossed the Rappahannock at Beverly Ford, formed line of battle 
and remained here until near sunset, when we advanced to Brandy 
Station, 

Our cavalry commenced skirmishing in our front about 10 A. M. 
The cavalry fighting was in plain view most of the day. Our division 
advance was a part of that of the whole army, which moved in grand 
array in line of battle, stretching for miles to the right and left, offering 
battle to the enemy. 

The latter, however, was hastening to turn the right of the Army of 
the Potomac via Warrenton. At midnight our division marched for the 
river again. In the night it became separated from the rest of the 
corps and did not reach our old camp until 3 A.M. on 13th. At 7 A. M. 
started again, moved some distance toward Warrenton, then inclining 
to the right marched for Catlett's Station, near which we bivouacked. 
At 4 A.M. on 14th we took up our march, moving nearly abreast i f the 
Second Corps; the corps (Fifth) halted to rest after crossing Broad Run 
at the point where the road which runs north of and parallel to the rail- 
road crosses that stream. 

This point is about one-third of a mile north of the railroad; the 
woods extend from the south up to the stream; a large open field extends 
for half a mile on north side of the stream. After remaining here about 
an hour (near half-past 1 P. M.), General Sykes commanding, the corps. 



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starieJ off towards Manassas, followed by the First and Second divisiona 
of his corps. Tlies j were followed by the corps batteries. Our division, 
for some unknown reason, did not start to follow the rest of the corps 
till the batteries had disappeared in the woods on the farther ciJe of the 
open ground. About 2 p. M. our division was drawn out on the road 
leading to Manassas Junction, the Tliird brigade, commanded by Colonel 
Hardin, leading. The liead cf t is brigade was near the woods where 
the other troops of the crops had disappeared, when the enemy opened 
firo from a batttry posted just across Broad Run, to the left rear of the 
position our division had lately occupied when resting. Several officers 
and men of the Tlu:d Brigade were struck by the first fire of the 
enemy's battery, which fired directly down the marching line < f the 
brigade. The brigade was brought from column into line, halted and 
faced toward the enemy. 

The First Brigade, at the first volley of the enemy's battery, had 
moved into a clump of woods on its right. This brigade was f orm> d in 
line on the edge of this woods, and the Third Brigade moved up 
(toward the enemy) to tho right of the First Brigade. The instant after 
receiving the first fire of the enemy's battery the commaoder of the 
Third Brigade sent an officer towards Manassas for one of the corps bat- 
teries to return and answer the enemy's battery. A hasty gonsultation 
took place between the division and brigade commanders (the division 
was under orders to follow the balance of the corps), and it was decided 
to remain where we were for the present. The division had scarcely 
been formed in line of battle when the enemy's infantry attack on the 
Second Corps, stationed on the heights near Bristoe Station, could be 
seen from the right of our position. No battery of the Fifth Corps com- 
ing up as soon as expected, and the attack of the enemy on the Second 
Corps teeming to grow in force, several messengers were sent back 
for a battery, the commander of the Third Bi-igade sending to 
the commander of the regular battery his personal wish that he would 
come back. This battery eventually returned, and came into battery 
on the right of the division. Its position was such as to enfilade the 
enemy's battery, which was now pngaged with the Second Corps' bat- 
teries. The enemy's batteries had at this time ceased firing in our direc- 
tion. 

The Reserve Division and battery were about 4 p. M. ordered by the 
^-^rps commander to retire and rejoin the remainder of the corps at 
Manassas Junction. This movement was begun, but soon arrested, and 



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the whole Fifth Corps returned to the position where it had rested near 
noon. In the meantime a portion of the Second Corps was engaged 
with a portion of Hill's Corps near the railroad. 

The Union army retired along the Orange and Alexandria Rail- 
road; I he Second Corps, General Warren commanding, acting as rear 
guard, moved close to the railroad ; the Fifth Corps, Sjkes command- 
ing, on left front of Second Corps, the Third Corps in front of the Fifth, 
each corps being ordered to keep in communication with the other. 
General Warren was informed by General Meade that the road was 
clear for the Third and Fifth corps ; that the Fifth Corps would remain 
near Bristoe (where the enemy might attack) until the Second Corps 
came up. General Sykes, commanding the Fifth Corps whilst his corps 
was resting in the fields north of Broad Rim, was informed, about 1.30 
P. M. , that the head of the Second Corps was up. Ue then started his 
corps for Manassas Junction. As before mentioned, just as the Reserve 
Division, the rear of the Fifth Corps, was drawn out, the Confederates 
came up and opened fire with artillery on our division. At this time 
Webb's Division of the Second Corps was approaching Broad Run from 
the south, by the road \he Fifth Corps had passed over. 

General Lee's plan was to attack the Union army at Bristoe, and 
endeavor to cut it in two whilst it was on the march. In pursuance of 
this plan, Heth's Division of Hill's Corps began an attack, first against 
the Reserve Division, with artillery; then Hill advanced his infantry to 
take possession of Bristoe Station. The fire of Hill's artillery notified 
the Second Corps of Hill's presence, and General Webb immediately 
threw out skirmishers on his left; these at once met Hill's skirmishers 
thrown out from his right. Webb fell back to his right rear, to the 
railroad embankment, to connect with his corps and to take possession 
of the railroad crossing of Broad Run. General Warren now came up, 
and personally knowing the ground well, ordered Hay's Brigade and 
his corps batteries to make all speed to get possession of the heights and 
railroad embankment near the Station. Warren got a part of bis corps 
into this strong position before the Confederates, who immediately made 
a determined efl'ort to carry this position. They were repulsed with 
severe loss in guns, killed, wounded and prisoners. The action of the 
Second Corps at this time was most brilliant, infantry and artillery 
vieing with each other in dash and courage. 

The Second Corps was soon established strongly at the railroad 
crossing. The Confederate generals seeing this, and also seeing the 



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Reserve Division with artillery on their left, delayed any further attack 
until Hill's entire corps and Ewell's command could come up. Only 
skirmishing occurred after 4 P. M. No further attack being made by the 
Confederates, the Union forces retired duriug the night. Our divisioi; 
crossed Bull Run by fording at 3 A. M. on IHtli, and then stopped to rest. 
Neither the Eeserve Division nor its commander ever received any 
credit for their action in this battle. A study of the ground, the circum- 
stances of the action and of the Confederate reports, proves conclusively 
that it was the presence of oui- division and the battery which j lined it 
that delayed or, rather, prevented an overwhelming attack on the Second 
Corps. It is not intended to detract from the skillful handling of the 
Second Corps, its divisions, brigades and batteries, and the splendid 
fighting of the r^nk and file, but the enemy had treble the Union force 
near this point all the afternoon, which for some reason he failed to 
use. Of course, the Confederates supposed our division was supported 
by the remainder of its corps and other troops, whereas we were more 
justified than General Warren in saying that the Fifth Corps "had 
deserted us." 



RAPPAHANNOCK STATION, NOVEMBER 7, 1863. 

" At 9 A. M. on 15th of October, we moved again (from north bank of 
Bull Run) passing through Centreville to Fairfax Court House, where we 
bivouacked in the woods near the town and remained until the 17th, when 
we advanced once more to Centreville and remained there all night. 
The next morning we returned to Fairfax Court House. On 19th, at 4 
A. M., moved towards Centreville, fording Bull Run, and that night slept 
on battlefield of Second Bull Run, where we found our dead mostly as 
they had fallen, and we laid down and slept among the bones of our 
comrades." 

The next morning we moved at 6 o'clock, passing through Gaines- 
ville and halting near New Baltimore, where we remained until the 
26th. On this (26th) day's march the head of the corps came to a small 
stream, which was flooded from recent rains ; it looked quite formida- 
ble, and without testing its depth or, in fact, doing anything towards 
making a crossing, the corps was halted and a pontoon bridge sent for. 
After a halt of an hour or more a bateau was brought up and put in 
the stream ; it was two short to reach across ; it was hauled out and the 
command continued to rest for several hours. One of the regular 
battery commanders (think it was Lieutenant Elder) asked authority to 



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try to take hia battery across ; ho was allowed to make the attempt. 
Fii-st trying the ford by riding through it, he then started bis I attery a 
little above the ford, he pushed his iiorses across, they had to swim in 
tlie middle of the stream, tut wht n the guns readied the deep part the 
horses had good footing and immediately i assed up the farther bank. 
The infantry cheered lustily and, not to be outdone, seme men called for 
axes and in a few minutes a large tree near the bank was felled across 
the stream, men ran across this and cut other trees on the farther bank, 
making them fall across the first tree felled, in a few minutes the 
infantry was crossing. 

On the 30th marched to Warrenton and remained there until 
November 7th. 

November 7th the Reserve Division, being Third Division of Fifth 
Corps, General Crawford conamanding (Colon 1 Hardin commanding 
Third Brigade, Lieutenant-Colonel Gustin the Twelfth Regiment), 
moved from Warrenton across the Orange and Alexandria Railroad, 
arrived south of the railroad and within two milts of Rappahannock 
Station about 11 A. M. The Confederates held the north bank of the 
Rappahannock River with two brigades of infantry and a battery in a 
fortified position at Rappahannock Station, with a strong line of skir- 
mishers in rifle pits extending about a thousand yards above and some 
distance below the station. 

The First, Second and Third Corps of Union army, under commatid 
of General French, were directed to carry Kelley's Ford, and the Fifth 
and Sixth Corps, under command of General Sedgwick, were directed to 
attack Rappahannock Station. It was thought the movement of 
General French would cause the Confederates to evacuate Rappahan- 
nock Station, but it did not. 

A strong skirmish line was formed to cover the advance of the 
Fifth and Sixth Corps. The Fifth Corps was to advance south of the 
railroad, the Sixth Corps north of it. The skirmishers of the Sixth 
corps drove back the enemy's skirmishers to the Rappahannock River 
and held the north bank near to Rappahannock Station. The skir- 
mishers of the Fifth Corps, about 900 strong, taken from the three 
divisions of the corps (seven ol3icers and about 300 men (part being from 
the 13th), were taken from the Reserves), under command of General K. 
Garrard, covered the Fifth Corps advance. General Garrard in his 
report says : ' ' The line was posted in front of the corps on the south 
side of the railroad, and about 3 p. M. I received orders to form my 



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whole force as skirmishers, to advance with my right on the raihruad, 
and to establish the picket line on the Rappahannock River, driving in 
the enemy which was in front. The river was about one and a half miles 
to the front. 

At 3.30 P. M. the advance was made, and in an hour or less the line 
was on the river on my left" (Third Division skirmishers on the left), 
" and up near to the railroad, wliere it bent back, owing to the opposition 
offered from an earthwork of the enemy near the river and on the north- 
west side of the railroad. My orders required me to regulate with the 
skirmishers of the Sixth Corps on the other side of the railroad, and in 
keeping up tliis connection a portion of the First Division, on the right 
of my line, crossed the railroad, and, at the time of tl;e charge, entered 
the fort together with the Sixth Corps. * * * Being unacquainted 
with the officers and men who had composed my temporary command, 
I am unable to report in detail in regard to their conduct. * * * " 

General French found no serious opposition beyond severe skirmish- 
ing, and by night had taken possession of both banks of the Rappahan- 
nock at Kelly's Ford. 

Bartlett's First Division, Fifth Corps, supported Garrard skirmish- 
ers, but was only under artillery fire. Artillery was posted on the 
right of the Sixth Corps and in front of the Fifth Corps, so as to liave a 
cross fire on the enemy's earthwork. Late in the evening General 
Russell, commanding a dtvison of the Sixth Corps, was ordered to 
assault the work with Upton'j and Elmaker's brigades of his division. 
The assault was gallantly made, being led by General Russell and 
Colonels Upton and Elmaker, and the enemy's work carried, with a loss 
to him of 1,700 prisoners, four guns and a pontoon bridge. 

On the 8th marched to Kelley's Ford and crossed the river there 
about 1 p. M., and then massed in column of divisions, rested a while 
and then advanced about two miles, when we reached some cabins built 
by A. P. Hill's Confederate troops. These cabins, made of logs, had 
large fireplaces and good large chunneys, with shingle roofs. We cap- 
tured in this camp about 3,000 pairs of drawers and other clothing, 
some harness, a few muskets and some odds and ends. It had evidently 
been the intention of the Confederates to winter here. Marched on 
10th to Mountain Run, where we again fovmd Confederate quarters; 
remained here until the 24th. Colonel Hardin, commanding Third 
Brigade, had brigade drills. He tried division drill with batteries 
attached to infantry, but found tactics very ixicomplete. 



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MINE EUN. 

The army Etarted on 24tli to cross the Rapidun, but a severe rain 
etorm coming on, the troops were sent back to their camps. The army 
started again on 26th ; crossed at Lower Fords, the Fifth Corps, to 
which the Reserve Division was attached, crossing at Culpeper Mine 
Ford. The roads were muddy and the bridges were too short (their 
lengths liaving been estimated on a lower stage of water). The right 
wing of the army was delayed by this error of the engineers, and the 
Third Corps moved very slowly after crossing, possibly through ignorance 
of the proper reads to move on. General Lee moved promptly upon 
learning the movement of the Army of the Potomac. He made no 
effort to prevent the crossing, but took up a strong position behind 
Mine Run, and with a part of liis force attacked the Third Corps, thus 
stopping it and preventing its rapid and effective junction with the rest 
of the army. He then withdrew his entire force behind Mine Run. 

The Army of the Potomac was now moved up to this position, 
which for three days it threatened to assault, but finding it too strong 
the Union army was withdrawn and fell back beliind the Rapidan. 
The regiments of the Reserve Division "left their camps on Broad 
Moimtain Run at 5 p. m. on 26th November. Marched to the Rapidan, 
crossed at Culpeper Mine Ford and moved down the Fredericksburg 
Plank Road to a i)oint four miles west of Chanc* llorsville and bivouacked. 
On morning of the 27th the line was formed with the Sixth Corps on 
the right, Third and Fifth in the centre, First and Second on the 
left. * * * The Reserves were sent forward to support Gregg's 
Division of Cavalry. They marched from their bivouac at 6 a.m., 
moving in a southerly direction over a road which entered the Orange 
Court House Plank Road at Parker's Store ; the troops then marched 
westward on the Plank Road to New Hope Church, where they found 
the cavalry engaging the enemy. The division was here ordered to 
form and support the cavalry. The enemy was posted in an abandoned 
railroad cut and easily withstood the attack of the cavalry. The 
division was now deployed to dislodge the enemy and skirmishers were 
sent in advance. These moved rapidly and drove the Coi federate force, 
which consisted of cavaliy and artillery, supported by a brigade of 
infantry, beyond the railroad cut." 

Colonel Hardin commanded the skirmishers on left of the road, 
where the enemy's skirmishers made the greatest resistance, they being 
supported here by a battery. A shell burst under Colonel Hardin's 



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horse, upsetting horse and rider withou*^^ doiug ei;! -Air any serious dam- 
age. General Sykes for onoe was complimentary to the Reserve skir- 
mishers. 

" On 28th the division moved forvs^ard to the riglit, and bivouacked 
at Robertson's Tavern. Next day the troops advanced two miles west- 
ward on the road from the tavern and formed in line of battle on the 
west bank of Mine Run. On Monday, 30th, moved to tlie right four 
miles and prepared to storm enemy's position." Lieutenant Rahn, of 
"C" company, Twelfth Regiment, and a picked party were sent out 
between the lines to find out the enemy's position, t3 learn how strong 
it was and if possible to find a crossing of Mine Ran. The Lieutenant 
was highly comphmented for his services on this occasion, 

A cold rain had faUen, and the weather turned very cold, so that 
lying in line of battle without fires officers and men suffered terribly. 
Some men were frozen to death. The division was moved from one 
position to another in front of the enemy until the night of December 
1st, when it relieved the Third Corps, which retired. The division 
started to the rear just after dark on December 1st, passed Robertson's 
Tavern and crossed the Rapidan at Raccoon Ford, 

On this retreat, which was very quietly and rapidly made, a bridge 
was broken down, causing a delay of the artillery. No one from the 
Fifth Corps appeared to order it repaired, but General Sedgwick, whose 
command, Sixth Corps, was in rear, came up and superintended the 
repairs, working with his own hands to make men hasten the work. 

After the Army of the Potomac returned from Mine Run expedi- 
tion it was posted along the Orange and Alexandria Railroad in Winter 
quarters and in such positions as t) guard this line of eupplies. The 
Firth Corjis, to which the Reserve Division was attached, was ordered to 
guard the line of railroad from the Rappahannock River to vicinity of 
Washington. The Reserves guarded tlie line from Bristoe Station to 
Alexandria; Third Brigade headquarters, Colonel Fisher commanding, at 
Manassas. The Fifth and Twelfth Regiments and a detachment of 
cavalry, under command of Colonel Hardin, were posted £.t Catlett's 
Station. The duty of the command was to guard the raJroad from 
cavalry and guerrilla raids. 

Colonel Fisher with a detachment of cavalry dispersed a guerrilla 
party and captured a Captain Lee, their commander. Instead of being 
tried by court martial for being in our unif rm, this Captain Lee, upon 
a telegram from the War Department, was sent to Washington, 



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where, it wuh said, lie was the next day seen walking the street* 
on parole I 

Soou after this Captain Lee was let off, a party of our officers and men 
were a:nbuscaded, and ssveral of the men kided and woundod. Decem- 
ber 14th, Colonel Ilardin, accompanied by Lieutenant-Colonel Gustin 
and a mounted orderly, was riuing the line of pickets which Avas 
posted along the railroad, selecting sites for block houses, when he 
encountered a party of five horsemen; supposing it to be a Union cavalry 
patrol. Colonel Ilardia rode up to the ofUcer who was riding in front 
(the entire party wore black slouch hats, Union overcoats and top bjots), 
and had just asked: ""Where are you going?'' when the whole five 
raised their revo'vers (which they haJ concealed behind their right legs) 
and fired. One sliot struck Colonel Ilardin in his cripple! left arm (It ' 
was paralyze-d from the wound received at Second Bull Run), one struck 
Colonel Gustin in his right hand, two struck Colonel Hardin's horse^ 
which sprang forward a few paces and fell dead within the limits of an 
infantry picket post. The guerrillas after firing turned off into the 
brush and were seen co more. This party had passed a Union sentinel 
on post only a minute before Colonel Ilardin addressed it, which proves 
conclusively that it was fully disguised in Union uniform. If that ii 
fair warfare the writer h unable to understand what is unfa r. Sub- 
sequently, Colonel Ilardin was recognized by the man Paine, who 
attempted to assassinate Mr. Seward. Paine tcld General Ilartranft 
that he was one of the men who shot at Colonel Ilardin. Only a few 
months since the writer was told a preacher (God save tlie mark!) 
boasted that he shot Colonel Hardin. He and Paine were fit com- 
panions. 

February 16, 1864, Major Larrimer, Inspector of our division, was 
killed by guerrillas. 

As the terms of service of the Reserve regiments were about to 
expire, great efTorts were made to get the men, iu a body, to re-enlist. 
Applications were made to the "War Department to give the division a 
furlough. General Crawford urged the matter very forcibly, using for 
the first time the argument that "seasoned" soldiers, as the remainder 
of the Reserves then were, were ro very far superior to new levies. 
Also stating that the men were mostly jourg and the be?t inat( rial for 
soldiers. ^Ve were soon to loarn how valuable were "seasoned'' soldiers, 
Buch as formed the bulk of General Lee's army. 

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Corps. Its divisions were commanded as follows : First, by General 
Griffin ; Second, by General Robinson ; Tliird (the Reserves), by General 
Crawford ; Fourth, by General Wadsworlh. The men of the Ninth 
Reserves, whose tirno was not out tae first of May, were transfened to 
the Twelfth Regiment. 



CHAPTER XIII. 



GRANT'S CAMP A.IGN— WILDERNESS AND SPOTTSYLVANIA. 

The Army of the Potomac was reorganized in the Spring of 1864 ; 
■corps and divisions consoliflated, so tliat there were only three corps — 
the Second, General Hancock commanding ; the Fifth, General Warren, 
and the Sixth, General Sedgwick. An independent army of hetero- 
geneous materials was formed, under command of General Burnsidej^ 
which joined in the Wilderness. General Grant, who had been made a 
Lieu tenant-General, and assigned to command of all the Union armies, 
decided to make his headquarters in the field with the Army of the 
Potomac, " for the reason that the principal Confederate army lay in 
its front." 

General Grant assumed command of the Army of the Potomac 
March 27, 1864. 

It is thought that General Grant believed that, in a scientific (mili- 
tary) point of view, the campaign should be made by the Peninsula 
route ; but there was such opposition by the authorities in Washington 
to this plan, he concluded to adopt the overland route, with a co-operat- 
ing force of considerable strength moving up the Peninsula by water. 
At the same time, to cover his right flank and to draw off somewhat 
from the enemy's main army, he formed Crook's and Sigel's armies, to 
operate in the valley of the Shenandoah and in West Virginia. 

On the 29th of April, 1864, the Reserve Division broke camp on the 
Orange and Alexandria Railroad, and marched near to Warrenton 
Junction; the next day it crossed the Rappahannock and camped near 
Culpeper Court House. It was attached to the Fifth Corps as its Third 
Division. On the 4th of May crossed the Rapidan about 11 A. M. at 
Germanna Ford, and bivouacked on the Lacy Farm. The Sixth Corps 
followed the Fifth; the Second Corps crossed at Ely's Ford, six 
miles below. Wilson's Cavalry Division preceded the Fifth Corps, and 
bivouacked at the old Wilderness Tavern. 

The Second Coi-ps, preceded by Gregg's Cavalry Division, moved to 
Chancellorsville. Lee's army extended from Raccoon Ford to Gordons- 
ville. Ewell's Corps on Lee's right, Hill's in centre and Long-street's at 
Gordonsville. General Grant's order for the Fifth says : " First — Major- 



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■General Sheridan, commanding the Cavahy Corps, will move with 
Gregg's and Torbert's divisions against the enemy's cavahy in the direc- 
tion of Hamilton's Crossing. General ^Yilson with the Third Cavalry- 
Division will move at 5 A. m. to Craig's Meeting House, on the Catharpin 
K' ad. He will keep out parties on the Orange Court House Pike and 
Plank Road, the Catharpin Road, Pamunky Road (road to Orange 
Springs), and in the direction of "VVayman's Store and Andrews' Store or 
Good Hope Church. Second — Major-General Hancock, commanding 
the Second Corps, will move at 5 A. M. to Shady Grove Church, and 
extend his right toward the Fifth Corps at Parker's Store. Third — 
Major-General Warren, commanding the Fifth Corps, will move at 5 
A. M. to Parker's Store on the Orange Court House Plank Road, and 
extend his right toward the Sixth Corps, at old Wilderness Tavern. 
Fourth — Major-General Sedgwick, commanding the Sixth Corps, will 
move to old Wilderness Tavern, on the Orange Court House Pike, as 
soon as the road is clear. * * * " 

The Army of the Potomac moved in accordance with this order 
and General Grant expected to get his army beyond the Wilderness 
before Lee's army could be assembled, and he expected himself to attack 
the Confederate army. General Lee, knowing thoroughly the Wilder- 
ness (a region of dense undergrowth, ditches and other obstruc- 
tions with very few roads through it), and that by moving down the 
Orange and Fredericksburg Plank Road and Turnpike he would strike 
the Army of the Potomac in flank in its movement, advanced liis army 
rapidly to the attack. Ewell's Corps on the Old Turnpike and Hill'f on 
the Plank Road. Swinton says: "In this thick chaparral, through 
which no artillery could play, Grant's masses would lose their force of 
impact, while the Confederate marksmen, with an almost Indian skill 
in woodcraft, could lie unseen in their grey array amid these dun 
woods and deal death to the assailants." 

Wilson's cavalry, which had preceded the Fifth Corps on the Old 
Turnpike, was withdrawn and sent to Parker's Store; thus there was no 
cavalry to indicate Ewell's movement. Grif3Sn's Division of the Fifth 
Corps met Ewell's advance, and Crawford, commanding the Reserves, 
says: "Led the advance of the Fifth Corps at 5 a.m., with orders 
to proceed to Parker's Store; * * * took the wood road from 
the Lacy House and pushed on till reaching the open space about one 
mile from Parker's Store. The cavalry had become engaged with the 
enemy. * ^ *^ They sent back for support. I deployed the Buck- 



tails at once to the front and they advanced just in time to resist aa 
attack of infantry that had just arrived. Took up a position, and at 
8.30 A. M. received an order from General Warren, stating that the 
movement had been suspended, and that Griffin and Wadsworth v^'ould 
attack on the Turnpike." Griffin's Division advanced on the Old 
Turrpke about noon, Wadsworth on Griffin's left and Robinson's 
Division in reserve ; drove back Johnson's Division of Ewell's Corps, 
but Wright's Division of the Sixth Corps not finding the right of 
Griffin's, Ewell's other divisions coming up, struck Griffin's right, the 
Regular Brigade, and then Bartlet's Brigade, and drove them back; also 
struck Wadsworth's Division on its left and drove it back, the whole of 
the Fifth Corps falling back to the point it held when it began its 
attack. 

In the meantime, the Reserve Division remained in position till 
afternoon, when McCandless, commanding the First Brigade, was sent 
to support Wadsworth's left ; advancing without his flanks pro- 
tected, he was compelled to retreat after the loss of nearly the whole 
of the Seventh Regiment. The gallantry of the Eleventh Regiment 
saved it from capture. It charged right through the Confederate inter- 
cepting force. The Third Brigade, Colonel Fisher commanding, was on 
picket ; the enemy showing on both flanks, General Crawford hastily 
withdrew th se pickets and moved back to his position of the morning. 
Getty's Divisicn of the Sixth Corps had been sent early to hold the 
junction of the Brock and Plank Roads. Hancock's movement towards 
Shady Grove Church was suspended about 11 A. M. and he was ordered 
to move up the Brock Road to join the rest of the army. 

Hill's Confederate Corps, which the Reserve Division struck on the 
Plank Road early in the morning continued on till it met Getty's Divis- 
ion. Getty held on till the Second Corps arrived about 3 p. m., when 
Getty and the Second Corps were ordered to drive Hill back. The 
attack began about 4.30 p. M., on both sides of the Plank Road, but Hill's 
troops could not be forced back ; the fighting was perfectly terrific. 
Wadt w( rth's Division of Fifth Corps was sent through the woods to 
cover Hancock's right ; it got lost in the woods and bivouacked in con- 
tact with Hill's skirmishers. It was a drawn battle with Burnside and 
Longstrect comi g up. 

The Sixth Corps was moved up on right of the Fifth Corps. Both 
tlie Second and Sixth corps were ordered to attack at 5 a. m. the 
next day. Confederate Gtneral Ewell anticipated Sedgwick, and tlie 



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contest on Union right continued for an hour or more, when the Coo- 
federates were repulsed. This attack by the Confederates was made 
to gain time for Anderson's Division of Hill's Corps, and Longsfreet's 
Corps to get up. The Second Corps, with Getty's Division of Sixth, 
advancing at 5 A. M., drove back Wilcox's and Ileth's divisions of 
Hill's Corps as far as the Confederate headquarters. Here hahing to 
reform his Hne, Hancock met Anderson's Division of Hill's Corps and 
soon a part of Longstreet's Corps. Hancock, who had under his com- 
mand half the army, could advance no farther. 

There was now a cessation of fighting for several hours. During 
this time Longstreet had gotten up his whole corps, extending it well 
to his right, when he attacked ; first forced back Hancock's left and 
then his whole line, as far back as the Brock Road. In the meantime, 
the Sixth Corps repeatedly assaulted Ewell's position (which the latter 
had entrenched) unsuccessfully. Two divisions of the Fifth Corps sup- 
porting Hancock, the other two divisions— the Reserves and Griffin's— 
could only attack with skirmishers. The Ninth Corps was ord. red to 
attack in the interval, between the Fifth and Second corps, on HancocVi 
right. With the exception of Leasure's Brigade, tlie Ninth Corps, after 
moving all over the field and accomplishing nothing, fell back and 
entrenched. About 4 P. M. Lee attacked Hancock's position on the 
Brock Road. By reason of a fire in Hancock's parapets the Confederates 
carried a portion of Hancock's line, but they were soon driven out of 
this position by Carroll's Brigade. 

The Reserve DivLsion was held in reserve most of the day, and 
at night it returned to its position at the Lacy House. When the 
right of the Sixth Corps was attacked, and Seymour's and Shaler's 
brigades fell back, the Reserve Division went at double quick to 
their support, but the line of battle was restored by other troops of the 
Sixth Corps. Finding General Lee's army entrenched, General Grant 
decided to make a flank movement to Spottsylvania Court House. 
His order of march was in part as follows: '<* * * Sixth— At 
8.30 P. M., Major-General Warren commanding Fifth Corps, will 
move to Spottsylvania Court House by way of Brock Road and 
Todd's Tavern. Seventh— At 8.30 p. m., Major-General Sedgwick, 
commanding Sixth Corps, will move by the Plank and Pike Road 
to Chancellorsville, where he wi:i be joined by the authorized trains 
of his own and the Fifth Corps ; thence by way of Aldricli's and 
Piney Branch Church to Spottsylvania Court House and the road 



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from Alsop's to Block House. Eighth— Major-General Hancock, com- 
manding Second Corps, ^vill move to Todd's Tavern, by the Brock Road, 
following the Fifth Cori)s closely. Ninth— Headquarters during the 
movement ■will be along the route of the Fifth and Second Corps, at the 
close of the movement near the Sixth Corps. Tenth — The pickets of 
the Fifth and Sixth Corps will be withdrawn at 1 A, M. and those of the 
Second Corps at 2 A. M, * * * Thirteenth— Major-General Sheridan, 
commanding the Cavalry Corps, will have a sufficient force, on the 
approaches from the right, to keei^ the corps commanders advised in 
time of the appearance of the enemy. Fourteenth — It is understood 
tliat General Burnside's command will follow the Sixth Corjis." 

The Fifth Corps started at 9 p. M.; was delayed one and a half 
hours at Todd's Tavern by General Meade's cavalry escort blocking the 
way. At two miles beyond was detained by Merritt's Cavalry Division, 
who had been and still were fighting Stuart's Cavalry. At 6 A. M. the 
cavalry moved out of the way and the infantry pushed on. The road 
was obstructed and some pioneers were killed removing obstacles. At 
8 A. M. of the 8th the column emerged from the woods into a clearing 
two miles north of Spottsylvania Court House. Robinson's Division 
of the Fifth Corps deployed and advanced over the field. At the crest 
of a ridge it met Anderson's Division of Longstreet's Corps and was 
repulsed. 

Anderson had moved the night before at 8 P. M. Having orders to 
start the morning of the 8th he had anticipated the movement of tlie 
Union army. No doubt he learned from his cavalry and scouts that the 
Union army had already started on a flank movement. He says he con- 
cluded to leave at night and get to the high ground about Spottsylvania 
by a night march. He reached his position about daylight. Griffin's 
Division advanced on the right of Robinson's and was also repulsed. 
The Reserve Division came up last, having been double-quicked to the 
field; it went in with a rush and drove the enemy out of the woods on 
Griffin's left. Wadsworth's Division came up on the right; a line was 
formed and the men began entrenching without orders. No other 
troops coming up till late, the attack was delayed till the Sixth Corps 
arrived. 

The principal attack was made by the Reserves, who formed in two 
lines ; First Brigade, Colonel Talley commanding, in front ; Third 
Brigade, Colonel Baily commanding, in rear ; a third line commanded 
by Colonel Herring. The attack of the Reserve Division was very success- 



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ful, but it was not supported, and there was no adequate result from 
their brilliant charge. Colonel Talley was captured. The division was 
commanded by Colonel McCoy, A. A. G. (General Crawford having been 
injured). The division was withdrawn by Colonel Jackson, of the 
Eleventh. " The troops held the line in front of the enemy during the 
night of the 8th ; rations were issued at midnight, and early on Monday 
morning the forces were rearranged for a renewal of the battle. The 
Reserves were moved a short distance to the right to relieve a portion of 
the Sixth Corps, where they laid down in the entrenchments until late 
in the afternoon. During the day the First Brigade made a reconnais- 
Bance to the Po River on the right." 

The Second Corps had been stopped at Todd's Tavern on the 8th to 
watch the enemy, to guard against an attack on the rear. On the 9th 
the whole army was brought up; the Sixth Corps ou the left of the 
Fifth, the Ninth Corps on the left of Sixth, and Second Corps on right 
of Fifth, on the Po River. 

Late in the afternoon Barlow's Division of Second Corps crossed the 
Po River, but before it could be supported the rest of the Corps was 
ordered to support the attack of the Fifth and Sixth corps. The attack 
of the Second, Fifth and Sixth corps was against Laurel Hill; the 
brigades of Webb and Carroll, of Gibbon's Division, had assaulted this 
position at 11 A. M., and Cutler's and the Reserve divisions at 3 p. M., 
without success. Now a grand assault was made, after 5 p. M. , by the 
Fifth and Sixth corps, wliich failed after heavy losses. General Rice, 
of Fifth Corps, was killed. Upton's Brigade of the Sixth Corps car- 
ried the entrenchments, but it was not supported. 

May 11th was given up to rest and to moving the Second Corps to the 
left of the army to make an assault there. May 12th Hancock made his 
grand successful assault on " the Bloody Angle." 

In regard to the controversy as to who was to blame for the failure 
of the Union army to get to Spottsy Ivania Court House before the Con- 
federates, General Humphreys (Chief of Staff) says: "Their (Confeder- 
ate's) route was about three miles shorter than Warren's, who, when he 
arrived at General Merritt's headquarters at 3.30 a. m., had marched as 
far as they had when arriving at the point where their leading troops 
met those of General Warren between 9 and 10 A. M. * * * The 
Confederates had a clear route, no obstructions; they had time to rest 
and breakfast before arrival of Fifth Corps. * * * The presence of 
Fitz Lee's Cavalry on the Brock Road, Hampton's Cavalry and Long- 



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street's Corps on the Shady Grove Road, settled the question as to who 
should first hold the Court House with infantry." 

Of the labors of the Union army at this time it has been written : 
*'No mere general statement can give any idea of the enormous 
amount of labor, suffering and privation that befel the troops in these 
continual shif Lings of the corps from point to point of the long line. 
May 13th, the battle of the 12th having ended in Lee's retirement to an 
inner and shorter line, it was resolved to attempt to turn his right flank. 
With this view the Ffth Corps during the night of the 13th was 
ordered to march from its position on the extreme right, to take post on 
the extreme left, to the left of Burnside's command, and assault in con- 
nection with that command at 4 P. M. on 14th. The march was begun 
at IQ P. M. The wet weather had, however, badly broken up the roads, 
and the night being one of Egyptian darkness, the move was made with 
immense difficulty. The route of march was past the Landrum House 
to the Ny River, which had to be waded. Across the Ny the route fol- 
lowed no road but traversed the fields and a piece of woods where a 
track had been cut. Here, midway of the journey, a dense fog arose 
and covered the ground, so that not even the numerous fires that had 
been built to guide the column could be seen. 

The men, exhausted with wading through the mud knee deep and 
in darkness, fell asleep all along the way. In addition to this, the 
locality where the troops were to take position was quite unknown, and 
at broad daylight, when the head of the column got to the left of Burn- 
side's Corps, near the Fredericksburg Turnpike, the only troops on hand 
with which to execute the meditated assault were 1,200 fagged out men 
of Griffin's Division. It was 7 A. M. before Cutler got 1,300 men up." 

May 14th, Jet House was occupied, abandoned and reoccupied. The 
Sixth Corps had followed the Fifth Corps, so that on the 15th and 16th 
Bimey's Division of Second Corps was on the right, then Burnside, then 
Fifth Corps. On 17th the Second Corps, assisted by the Sixth and 
Ninth, was ordered to return to the scene of its assault and make 
another attack. The attack was made at 4 A. M. on the 18th, but the 
enemy was found entrenched and attack failed. The Fifth Corps on 
the 18th held the greater portion of the line of the Union entrench- 
ments. Wari'en opened with his batteries to cover the attack. 
; During the artillery firing a number of picked men, mostly Buck- 
tails, were advanced close to the enemy's line in f I'ont of the First Brigade 
of the Reserve Division (Colonel Hardin having reported for duty on 



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18tli was assigned to command the First Brigade), and strongly sup- 
ported by skirmishers. It was hoped this good position could be held, 
from which an attack could be made the next mornin.!?. The First 
Brigade of the Reserves was relieved just before dark by Colonel Coul- 
ter's Brigade; his men were warned to expect the enemy to try to drive in 
this advanced picket line. When the enemy's expected attack was made, 
two of Colonel Coulter's regiments made little resistance. "Whilst rein- 
forcing his line and displaying his usual boldness, Colonel Coulter was 
wounded, and the advance line lost. 

The 19th was set for the next turning movement, but Ewell 
attacked Tyler's Division of new troops on the road to Fredericksburg, 
and delayed it. The Reserve Division was double quicked to the right 
two or more miles. It passed by the lines of knapsacks left by Tyler's 
men, and came up behind the left of his line of battle; his men were 
standing up in line of bat.le and every few minutes blazing away at 
nothing, unless a shot from a straggling Confederate could be called 
something. It seemed impossible to stop this firing. The First Brigade 
was ordered to advance in front of Tyler's left to see what was there. 
The command, on accoimt of this unsteadiness of Tyler's troops, could 
not be sent directly to the front; the brigade was fiied off to the left and 
halted, where a skirmish line of the Bucktails was formed, and advanced 
into the woods in front. The enemy had already retired. The Buck- 
tails remained on picket all night. The next morning the writer rode 
the picket line; finding all the pickets' shelter tents and blankets on the 
enemy's side of large trees, he naturally inquired the reason of this 
extraordinary state of affairs. The pickets said they received a blizzard 
every little while from the Union line, and only an occasional shot from 
the enemy's side. Yet these new troops had shown good pluck in resist- 
ing E well's reconnaissance. Lee's veterans were surely as two to one of 
such troops, however courageous. The division returned to its old 
camp the next day. 

In the meantime General Sheridan, with the greater part of the 
mounted force, had gone on his raid in the rear of Lee's army, during 
which the battle of Yellow Tavern occurred, and the famous Confeder- 
ate cavalry leader. General Stuart, was killed. As a raid, this move- 
ment of the Union cavalry was a success (Sheridan was the kind of 
leader to make successes), but as a military movement, leaving the main 
army short of cavalry at this supreme time, it was a military error. 
The principal reason why the infantry was marched hither and thither 



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was to find out positions which the cavalry would have found for it. 
The infantry was so much exhausted by marching, especially at night 
and in rain, it had little stomach f(ir a fight when the attacks were 
ordered. 

The night of the 20th the Second Corps moved from the right of the 
army in rear of the entire line to Massaponax Church, and next day, 
preceded by Torbert's Cavalry, passed Milford Station, on the Freder- 
icksburg and Richmond Railroad. The Second Corps reached Bowling 
Green that evening and remained there till the 23d. The Fifth Corps 
started on the morning of the 21st, followed in the afternoon by Burn- 
side's command. In the night the Sixth Corps left its position. Lee 
learned on 20th of tliis movement and sent Longstreet's Corps to head 
off the Second Corps. Ewell's followed Longstreet's. Hill attacked 
the Sixth Corps, which had been left to cover the rear of the army; Hill 
was repulsed. 



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CHAPTER XIV. 



NORTH ANNA AND BETHESDA CHURCH. 

Tlie Reserve Division broke camp at Spottsylvania Court House, 
at 12 M. on 2Ist, being on left of the Corps; marching rapidly it arrived 
at Gurney's Station at 6 p. m. A small furce of the enemy's cavalry was 
driven from the station by the Sixth Regiment and Bucktails. Captain 
Pattee, in charge of the division pioneers, with men from the Tenth and 
Bucktail regiments, captured Gatewood House on morning of 23d. 
Colonel Gates, commanding Baxter's Brigade, reconnoitered on 22d 
three miles beyond Gurney's Station, and saw the enemy moving south 
in force. 

The whole of Grant's army now pushed rapidly on toward the North 
Anna. At 1 1 a. m. on 22d the Fifth Corps moved from Gurney's Station, 
and marched down the telegraph road to Bowling Green, near which 
place it bivouacked. The Reserve Division was in advance, having skir- 
mishers covering its front; these latter searched houses and sought 
information as well as guarded against a surprise. 

The Fifth Corps moved early on 23d, passed the Second Corps at 
Milford, and advanced to Jericho Ford on North Anna, where it crossed. 
The Second Corps came up in the afternoon and took position to the left 
of Fifth Coi-ps on the railroad. Advancing along the railroad it stormed 
the Chesterfield or County bridge above railroad bridge. Thus the 
Fifth and Second Corps crossed the North Anna at the points designated 
for them. Between them was a space of three to four miles, which 
Burnside's command was to occupy, and it was to cross at Quarles Mill 
about half way between the crossings of Fifth and Second Corps. 
But this command came up slowly and stopped on the left bank, mak- 
no effort to cross. This enabled the Confederates to seize a point on 
the river below Quarles Mill which they entrenched and held. 

Griffin's Divis:ion, the head of the Fifth Corps, reached the North 
Anna at 1 P. M., and before 2 p. m. was crossing. The river here has a 
rocky bed and steep banks. It was difficult to make approaches for a 
pontoon bridge. The water ran rapidly, and was about waist deep. 
The men waded across. Griffin's Division was promptly formed on 
the right bank, and advanced to the woods about half a mile from the 



river, where it formed line of battle. The Reserve Division crossed and 
advanced, and formed line on Griffin's left. Cutler was to come up ou 
Griffin's right. Before he could get into position, the enemy, under 
Wilcox, attacked Griffin; a fierce infantry fight now ensued. The 
enemy were forcing Griffin s left back and about to gain an interval 
which existed between Griffin's left and the First Brigade of the Reserve 
Division. One regiment of First Brigade had been thrown to the rear 
-and faced to the right, when two regiments of Cutler's Division, coming 
from the rear, looking for their division, at the request of Colont 1 Har- 
din, advanced to cover the interval above mentioned. They soon got 
into the hot infantry fight on Griffin's left. They were of the right 
material, and went in with a will; they forced the enemy back, and this 
part of the line was fully restored. 

The Reserve Division was in open ground; the First Brigade on the 
right, Third on the left. The enemy opened about thirty pieces of 
artillery on the division. As the division had not had time to entrench, 
the men were under about as warm artillery fire as they ever had in the 
open. Division Headquarters was driven back to the river for shelter. 
The First Brigade Headquarters seized an icehouse, which was imfortu- 
nately directly in rear of a farm house, which appeared to be the Con- 
federate target. The ice house was blown up. About the same time 
Colonel Hardin's horse was struck by a piece of shell. Soon after, 
while posting Cutler's regiments. Colonel Hardin was himself struck by 
a piece of shell. 

The Bucktails, under Major Hartshorn, were sent out to take a 
house in front of the division. They made a brilliant advance, captur- 
ing the house and forcing the enemy to change the location of his 
artillery. 

In the meantime Cutler was attacked as he was coming into 
position ou the right of Griffin, and a part of his command thrown into 
confusion ; but the Eighty-Third Pennsylvania, Lieutenant-Colonel 
McCoy commanding, struck Brown's Confederate Brigade in flank, 
capturing Colonel Brown and several hundred men. This, and the good 
work done on Griffin's front and by the BucktaUs, caused the Confed- 
erates to cease the attack and to retire. 

Early in the morning of the 24th the Fifth Regiment, Lieutenant- 
Colonel Smith, and the Sixth, Colonel Ent, reconnoitered to the railroad 
in front, captured some prisoners, and learned the enemy had left the 
front of the Fifth Corps. The First Regiment, Lieutenant-Colonel Stewart, 



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^rt, was sent early in the morning along the right bank of the river to 
connect with Burnside's command. Colonel Stewart was informed that 
Burnside's troops had crossed at Quarles Ford. Colonel Stewart 
advanced until he came opposite to Burnside's command, who were 
inclined to treat him as an enemy. They would not join him, so the 
Reserve Division was ordered to go to Colonel Stewart's support and 
hold the right bank for Burnside's command to cross behind them. 

The division, advancing cautiously, succeeded in getting some dis- 
tance below Colonel Stewart's position ; here it halted and entrenched 
expecting every moment to be attacked. Burnside's troops now came 
down to the river and went to washing, bathing and swimming, at the 
same time halloomg and making all the noise they could as though 
there were no enemy within miles. The writer was never so indignant 
m his life. His troops were then in peril of their lives, and had been in 
the utmost danger of capture since early in the morning, holding an 
uncovered position on the right of the river within sight of the whole 
Confederate army. 

It took about six hours to get one of Burnside's Divisions over the 
river and in position to attack. We all said then we would be better off 
without Burnside's army, as it was then commanded. The enemy came 
close up to our front and entrenched, whilst Ihis division of Burnside's 
was getting over and into position. And when it attacked, as it did 
about sundown, with considerable spirit, it struck entrenchments, lost 
heavily, and gained nothing. General Meade was perfectly justified in 
demanding that Burnside should be put under him, and his troops made 
a, corps of the Army of the Potomac. 

The withdrawal from the North Anna was begun at dark on 26th, 
when the Second, Fifth and Sixth corps withdrew to the North bank! 
The army moved east and south for the Pamunky. The Sixth Corps', 
preceeded by two divisions of cavalry under General Sheridan, took the 
advance the night of 26th, and on morning of 27th crossed the Pamunky 
at Hanovertown. The Fifth and Ninth corps followed. The Second 
Corps covered the rear. 

The Reserves bivouacked on Mrs. Orman's plantation Friday 
night: resumed the march next morning early, passing Hanovertown, 
crossed the Pamunky, advanced two miles on the Mechanicsville Pike, 
were formed in line of battle on extreme left of the army, and threw up 
entrenchments facing southward. Late in the day the division changed 
front and constructed rifle pits facing westward. By night the whole 



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army had formed line, facing westward, stretching from the Pamunky 
across the Tolopotomoy, to a point near Coal Harbor. During the day 
the cavalry fought at Hawes' Shop. 

During the 29th (Sunday) the whole army advanced toward the 
Chickahominy; only a skirmish line of the enemy found. On Monday 
morning, 30th, Fifth Corps crossed the Tolopotomoy; Griffin's division 
was ordered to advance on the direct road leading from Hanover Court 
House to Richmond ; Crawford's Division to move forward on the 
Mechanicsville Pike and to connect with Griffin's left. This latter 
road was held by the enemy's cavalry, and in rear of this advance 
guard was Rodes' Division of Ewell's Corps. The Reserve (Crawford's) 
Division (now composed of First and Third brigades of the Reserves 
and Kitching's Brigade of new troops) was about one-half mile north 
of Bethesda Church. A wood (country) road led south from position of 
Crawford's Division to the Mechanicsville Pike. 

The enemy's cavalry was supported by artillery, which early in the 
day opened on the position of the Reserve Division. The Fifth Regi- 
ment, being on picket, was ordered to advance and take a strip of 
woods in its front which crossed the wood road. This regiment, being 
armed with smooth-bore muskets, was unable to dislodge the enemy 
from the strip of woods. The Tenth Regiment was ordered to relieve 
the Fifth. It did so, and was deployed as skirmishers on the left of the 
wood road, and tried to advance, but could not carry the strip of woods, 
which by this time was strongly held by Confederate infantry skir- 
mishers. 

Directions were now received for the First Brigade (about 5 P. M.) 
to advance in line and take this strip of woods. The Bucktails were 
immediately deployed as skirmishers on the right of the wood road, and 
the other regiments of the First Brigade formed in line of battle to sup- 
port the line of skirmishers. The Bucktails, led by Major Hartshorn, 
began to work across an old corn field, which lay between the woods on 
one side and the strip of timber before mentioned, in a manner to excite 
the admiration of friend and foe. Being deployed at our edge of the 
timber, they made a rush into the open, which drew the enemy's fire. 
The instant this fire began the Bucktails dropped. As soon as tho 
enemy's fire slackened the Bucktails rcse and delivered a rapid fire of 
three to five shots a piece from their breechloaders, advancing at the same 
time. As soon as the enemy had loaded he began firing again : in an 
instant the Bucktails literally disappeared. The enemy's fire diminish- 



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ing, the Bucktails again rose, delivered three to five shots in rapid suc- 
cession, and ran for the enemys strii) of woods, which they cairied, the 
enemy falling back to a houte where he made a short stand, but was 
soon driven out and back to his main line, which the Bucktails dis- 
covered to be about a quarter cf a mile beyond Bethesda Church. In 
the meantime the First Brigade followed the skirmishers, and was soon 
on the Mechanicsville Pike at Bethesda Church. The men were ordered 
to tear down the fences and make a breastwork, and word was sent 
back to the division commander that the enemy's skirmishers had been 
driven back to his entrenched line, that reinforcements should be sent 
up at once, or the First Brigade, which was half a mUe or more beyond 
any support, having accomplished the object of its reconnaissance, 
should be withdrawn. 

The answer was to hold on where the brigade was, but no rein- 
forcements came up. Soon the enemy formed a column of attack, con- 
sisting of Rodes' Division; each brigade of it formed in line. This 
column, five or six times the strength of the First Brigade, came down 
the Mechanicsville Pike at a run, its left resting on the pike, and its 
front extended off to the right. There had been only time for the First 
Brigade of Reserves to pile up some fence rails and lay down behind 
them, when this column came rushing over them. The volley cr two 
delivered by our feeble force made no impression on the enemy; he ran 
over and around the piles of rails, and his division headquarters' arrived 
amidst the headquarters of the First Brigade before the latter could 
extricate itself. The enemy was so confident of his ultimate success, he 
did not stop to secure the First Brigade prisoners, but continued on'liis 
charge down the pike. 

The Confederate Headquartf rs and the First Brigade Headquarters 
came together on the pike near Bethesda Church. Officers and men of 
the First Brigade began at once to slip back by the wood road, and just 
as the last of them had gotten clear of the enemy's rear, the Third Bri- 
gade, Colonel Fisher commanding, came up by the flank on the Wood 
Road. The disorganized but undismayed First Brigade immediately 
joined the Third Brigade. About this time Colonel Kitcliing formed his 
brigade on the ridge, opposite the point of the strip of woods heretofore 
mentioned, and commenced firing on the Confederate column, which 
still continued down the Mechanicsville Pike. 

The Confederates, at last, finding they were moving in the wrong 
direction, to wit, parallel to the Union line, halted and changed front. 



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In the meantime their rear had thrown out skirmishers along the pike, 
who kept up a sharp fire on tlie First and Third Brigades and on Kitch- 
ing's command. Colonel Hardin's command (the First Brigade) hav- 
ing formed in with the Third Brigade, and it being plainly seen that the 
enemy's division was charging front to charge us, he sent word to 
Colonel Fisher to f.dl back to our line of battle, whilst he 
would go to Kitching's command (near which he had arrived in 
extricating himself and his headquarters from the Confederate column). 
Kitching's men were standing up on the crest firing as fast as possible ; 
Colonel Hardin went up to this line and tried his best to get the men to 
lie down, as the skirmish fire (the only fire of the enemy) was dealing 
destruction amongst them. No amount of persuasion nor orders could 
make the men lie down ; Colonel Hardin then asked Colonel Kitching 
to move his brigade back to his former position in the general line of 
battle. 

From Colonel Kitching's position we could now plainly see the 
enemy forming to charge in our direction. Colonel Kitching now 
ordered his command back, and Colonel Hardin hastened to the position 
from which the First Brigade had started in making its reconnais=ance. 
Every effort was now made by Colonel Fisher, Colonel Kitching and 
Colonel Hardin to get a connected line formed to meet the expected 
attack. A battery of artillery was posted so as to reach the open ground, 
A slight breastwork which had been begun earlier in the day across the 
wood road was finished. There was an interval between the right of 
the Reserve Division and Griffin's Division. The Bucktails were placed 
as a skirmish line to cover this interval. Whilst these were being placed y. 
General Griffin rode up and, as there was now no firing and no enemy 
in sight, he asked what we were making such preparations for. He 
was requested to ride with the writer to the crest of the ridge at the 
point of the strip of woods before mentioned, which he did or started to 
do. Just after crossing the wood road we came face to face with the 
same Confederate Headquarters, those of General Ramseur (an old army 
acquaintance) commanding Rodes' Division, that the writer had lately 
encountered. General Griffin called out, "I'm satisfied," and galloped 
off to prepare his own division to receive the attack. 

The Confederates charged apparently in column of brigade front, five 
or six brigades deep. They succeeded in getting within fifty feet of our 
lines, but were repulsed with very severe loss, whilst the loss to the 
Reserve Division in tliis final attack was very slight. Part of the 



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eueniy's attack was against the ground held by the Bucktails, whose 
fire seemed fairly continuous. 

After the enemy was reptilsed, General Crawford got on the breast- 
works and ordered a charge, but it was now dark, and the enemy had 
withdrawn, leaving their killed and severely wounded behind. If the 
enemy had advanced in the proper dirtction, as it was natural to sup- 
pose he would, the First Brigade would have been destroyed or cap- 
tured. 

However, "all's well that ends well," and the Reserves in their last 
battle, so near their first on the Peninsula, escaped with a compara- 
tively small loss, and caused as large a loss proportionately to the enemy 
as at ]\Iechanicsville. The Reserves then were about ten thousand 
strong, and attacked by about twenty thousand. At Bethesda Church, 
the Reserves were about two thousand five hundred, and attacked by 
more than double their number. 

General Grant, ordering an advance after the Battle of the Wilder- 
ness, and especially after the misfortune on his right late in the evening, 
(his communications were beliind his right) proved him to be superior in 
generalship to any prior commander of the army of the Potomac. This 
movement discouraged the Confederate rank and file, the Confederate 
civil authorities, and the people from whom recruits for the Confederate 
army were to be obtained. 

The failure of the attacks of General Grant's armies in this cam- 
paign, and the terrible losses in these attacks, were principally due to the 
advantage the defensive has with modern weapons when the defensive 
is properly conducted. General Lee's campaign is a model well worthy 
of study. Other causes of these great losses were: that a large part of 
General Grant's armies was composed of new troops, extremely brave, 
but unable to cope fairly with Lee's veteran's in such a region as the 
Wilderness and Uke country, through which this campaign was con- 
ducted ; and, that General Lee had more experienced corps, division 
and brigade commanders, 

The writer would reinforce his opinion by such examples as: Burn- 
side's failure at Fredericksburg; the failure of General Lee's grand 
assault on third day at Gettysburg; the failure of General Sherman's 
assault on Kenesaw Mountain— in fact, the real success of Sherman's 
campaign began when his enemy, under General Hood, assumed the 
offensive. 

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Army of the Potomac; took leave of General Warren, commanding 
Fifth Corps, and prepared for its departure to Harrisburg, Pennsyl- 
vania, to be mustered out. About one thousand two hundred officers 
and men returned to the State, and one thou- and seven himdred and 
fifty-nine re-enlisted and formed the One Hundred and Ninetieth and 
One Hundred and Ninety -First Pennsylvania regiments. 

The veterans of the Twelfth Regiment went to the One Hundred and 
Ninetieth Pennsylvania, Colonel Hartshorn. 

On the 1st of June, General Crawford issued a farewell address to 
the Corps. 

"The Reserves marched down the North bank of the Pamunky, hav- 
ing in charge six hundred Rebel prisoners, and a long train of ambu- 
lances and wagons, carrying wounded soldiers to the transports at 
Wliite House. The Reserves embarked there on the 3d, and sailed for 
Washington, where they arrived on the following day. They went from 
Washington to Harrisburg by rail, arriving at the latter city on the 6th. 

There was a review for the Governor (Curtin), reception by the citi- 
zens, much speech-making, and they were mustered out on the 11th of 
June, 1864. 



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CHAPTER XV. 



BIOGRAPHIES AND MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS. 



GENERAL MARTIN D. HARDIN 
Was born at Jacksonville, Morgan County, Illinois, June 26, 1837. 
He is a descendant of martial ancestry. His great-grandfather was 
General John Hardin, of Kentucky, who commanded a company of 
troops in Colonel Morgan's celebrated regiment of riflemen at the battle 
of Saratoga, and was present at the capture of the British army under 
General Burgoyne on 17th October, 1777. He subsequently distinguished 
himself in the Indian wars, and finally fell a victim to their barbarous 
treachery while negotiating a treaty of peace. His grandfather was 
General Martin D. Hardiu, of Kentucky, who served with honor with 
General Harrison in the war of 1812. His father was General John J. 
Hardin, of Illinois, whose mother was a daughter of the distinguished 
General Logan, of Kentucky. General John J. Hardin served in the 
Black Hawk war in Illinois. Was a general of militia at the time of 
the Mormon troubles in Illinois, represented his district (the one in which 
the lamented Lincoln resided), in Congress, and raised the First 
Illinois Volunteers and went to Mexico as its Colonel. He was killed 
whilst gallantly leading his regiment at the battle of Buena Vista. 

The subject of this sketch was appointed a Cadet at Large to the 
West Point Military Academy in 1854, graduated in the artillery in 

1859. His class was the first five year class at that academy. 
Was breveted a second lieutenant in the Third United States Artillery 
July 1, 1859, and ordered to report in September following at the 
Artillery School at Fortress Monroe, Va. Served at this post until March, 

1860. Accompanied a command from Fort Monroe, Va., to Harpers 
Ferry to recapture the arsenal at that point, which had been seized by 
John Brown and his followers. Served as Aid-de-Camp (temporary) 
to Lieutenant-Colonel R. E. Lee, commanding regular troops at Har- 
per's Ferry. Made a reconnaissance and official report of method of 
defence of Harper's Ferry. Voluntei'red to join and joined a command 
which was to endeavor to cross from the headwaters of the Missouri to 



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the headwaters of the Columbia River under command of Major Blake, 
Left St. Louis, Mo., May 3, 1860; arrived at Fort Vancouver iu October 
following. Joined Company " L," Third Artillery, at Fort Umpqua, 
Oregon, October, 1861, having been promoted Second Lieutenant 
(January 2d) in that company. Commanded Fort Umpqua, Oregon, 
from Winter, 1860-61 to October, 1861. Returned to "States" with 
light battery " C " of regiment (Third Artillerj-) Fall of 1861. In Camp 
Barry, east of Capitol, November, 1861, to December 25, 1861. Promoted 
First Lieutenant Company "H"May 14, 1861. Crossed the Potomac 
with that company, Captain J. Stewart commanding, and served with 
McCall's Division (Pennsylvania Reserves) Winter 1801-62. Company 
" H " having been ordered March, 1862, to California, he requested 
to remain East, and was ordered to report to Colonel 11. J. Hunt, ro:n- 
manding Artillery Reserve as Aid-de-Camp. Served with Artillery 
Reserve until July 8th, 1862. Was elected Lieutenant-Colonel Twelfth 
Regiment Pennsylvania Reserves April 1st, 1862. Present at Yorktown, 
Absent sick with swamp fever from the first of May to first of June, 
Rejoined Army Potomac on Cnickahominy about June 12th, 1802. 
Present in Seven Day's battles. Promoted Colonel Twelfth Regiment 
Pennsylvania Reserves July 8th, 1862, and ordered by General McClel- 
lan, commanding Army Potomac, to assume command of that regi- 
ment. Assumed command July 8th, 1862. 

Present in Greneral Pope's campaign. Was slightly wounded in 
head, August 29, whilst commanding regimf-nt. Was assigned to com- 
mand of Third Brigade Pennsylvania Reserve Division (Greneral Jackson, 
the permanent commander, being sick) on afternoon of Au'^ust 30, 1862. 
Was severely wounded in left breast whilst commanding said Third 
Brigade, about 5 p.m. August 30, 1862 (battle of second Bull Run), 
Absent on account of wounds from August 30, 1862, to December 18, 
1862. Commanding Third Brigade Pennsylvania Reserves, December 1 8, 
1862, to January 12, 1863. Absent, sick on account of wounds, January 
12, 1863, to March 11, 1863, On Provost and Court Martial duty in 
defences of Washington, March 11, 1863, to May 31, 1863. On 
leave. May 31, 1863, to June 25, 1863. Rejoined regiment whil.-t 
en route to Gettysburg. Commanded regiment at Battle of 
Gettysburg. Commanding regiment at " Falling Waters." Com- 
manded Third Brigade Pennsylvania Reserves in Rapidan Cam- 
paign, September to December, 1863. Present at combat of Bristoe 
Station, October 14, 1863. Rappahannock Station, November 7, 1863, 



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and Mine Run campaign, November 26 to December 3, 1863. In 
command of two regiments of infantry and a squadron of cavalry 
guarding Orange and Alexandria Railroad, December 3-14, 18G3. 
Severely wounded by guerrillas, wliilst inspecting line of railroad, 
December 14, 1833, losing left arm. Absent, sick on account of wounds, 
December 14, 1833, to January 10, 1864. On Court Martial and Military 
Commission in New York City and Boston, Mass., January 10 to Marck 
26, 1864. • In command of draft Rendezvous at Pittsburg, Pa., March 26 
to May 14 (?) 1864. Applied to rejoin regiment in field, joined May 
18, 1864. Assigned to command of First Brigade Crawford's 
Division (Pennsylvania Reserves) Fifth Corps, present at Battle of Spott- 
sylvania, May 18-20, 1884; battle of North Anna, May 23, 1361, where 
he was shghtly wounded by piece of shell; Battle of Talopotomoy, May 
28, 1864 ; Battle of Bethesda Church, May 30, 1834. Mustered out with 
the regiment, June 11, 1864. Oa sick leave on account of wounds, June 
11, 1864, to July 8, 1331. Promoted Brigadier-General, July 2, 1863. 
Assigned to command of defences of Washington, north of the Potomac, 
July 8, 1864. Engaged in defence of the Capitol against General Early's 
army, July 10-12, 1864. Relieved from command of the defences of 
Washington, north of the Potomac, August 4, 1865. In command of 
district of Raleigh, N. C, August 15, 1835, to January 15, 1866. On 
leave of absence, January 15, 1868, to April 4, 1836. Mustered out as 
Brigadier-General Volunteers, January 15, 1886. On recruiting service 
at Chicago, III., April 4, 1833, to October 5, 1833. Pi'omoted Major 
Forty -third U. S. Infantry, July 28, 1863. Superintendent of regimental 
recruiting service, Detrioc, Mich., November 4, 1833, to Winter of 1863-7. 
Acting Judge- Advocate Headquarters Department of the Lakes, Detroit, 
Mich., Spring of 1867. On leave abroad, 1837-8. June, 1868. to April, 
1869, on duty at Headquarters jf Department or commanding Fort 
Wayne, Michigtn. Transferred to First U. S. Infantry, April, 1869. 
Commandmg Fort Porter, Buffalo, N. Y., April, l'-69, to August, 1870. 
Commanding Fort Gratiot, Michigan, August, 1870, to December 15, 1870. 

Retired as Brigadier-General, December 15, 1870. 

Brevet Captain, August 29. h, 1832, for gallant and meritorious 
services at the battle of Grove ton, Va. 

Brevet Major, August 30lh, 1863, for gallant and meritorious ser- 
vices at the battle of Manassas, Va. 

Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel, December 14th, 1863, for gallant and 
meritorious services in an encoiinter with a band of guerrillas. 



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Brevet Colonel, May 23d, 1864, for gallant ami meritorious services 
at the battle of North Anna. 

Brevet Brigadier-General, March 13th, I860, for gallant and meri- 
torious services in the field during the Rebellion. 

After he was retired General Hardin made his home in Cliicago, 
111. Having read law in various oliices, (in Chicago, in Scammon, 
McCogg & Fuller's) he was admitted to the bar in 1871, and practiced 
law in Chicago actively for twelve years, although several times having 
to take a rest on account of chills and fever which he had contracted at 
Yorktown, Va. He married November 15th, 1864, Estelle Graham, 
second daughter of IMajor James Graham, of San Francisco, California. 
Has passed nine Winters in St. Augustine, Florida, at first on account 
of severe attack of ague, afterward on account of the delicate health of 
his wife, who died at Highland Falls, near West Poiat, N. Y., August 
24th, 1890. Mrs. Hardin was one of the most beautiful and intellectual 
women, and one of tlie loveliest characters of her day. She was remark- 
ably well read, and by means of her extraordinary memory was never 
amiss on a quotation or a work of art. Although so unusually well 
informed, on account of her gentle, modest and retiring nature, few but 
her friends (all who knew her were her friends) were aware of her 
accomplishments. General and Mrs. Hardin had no children. The loss 
of his beloved companion was a terrible blow to the survivor. General 
Hardin was for a long time an active member of the Chicago Literary 
Club; he has written many articles for societies to n-hich he belongs, for the 
magazines, etc. He is also an accomplished horseman, a good shot, an 
ardent and successful fisherman, and an excellent swimmer even since he 
lost his arm ; is passionately fond of small boat sailing and of mountain 
cUmbing. He is a professed Christian of the Roman Catholic faith. 



JOHN HENRY TAGGART. 
Colonel John H. Taggart, editor and senior proprietor of Taggarts' 
Times, of Philadelphia, was born in Georgetown, Kent County, Md., on 
the 22d of January, 1821. His father and mother were both Maryland- 
ers, the former being a native of Cecil, and the latter of Kent County, 
on the eastern shore of the Chesapeake Bay. After the death of his 
father, Henry L. Taggart, he came to Philadelphia, in 1829, with his 
mother and sister, where he resided up to the breaking out of the 
Rebellion in 1861. In May, 1844, he married Miss Elizabeth Graham, a 



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native of Philadelphia, by whoi:i he had six sons and four daughters, of 
whom only four, two sons and two daugliters, are now living (1888). 

He is a practical printer, and began setting type when only ten 
years old, on the old National Gazette, published by William Fry. After 
it ceased publication, about 1840, he became a compositor on the Public 
Ledger, and, except abou*^^ six months in the latter part of 1849, when he 
published a weekly military papi-r, called the Pennsylvania Volunteer^ 
he remained on the Public Ledger, setting type until 1858, when he 
accepted a position as a reporter on the Sunday Mercury; next he w^as 
employed as a reporter on the Puhlic Ledger for about a year; then on 
Forney's Press, till the early part of 1860. At tliat time he bought a 
half interest in the Sunday Mercury, and it was then published by Jones 
& Taggart, the senior partner being George W. Jones. 

Colonel Taggart had a taste for military exercises, and was for 
many years connected with the Washington Blues, Captain William C. 
Patterson, of Philadelphia, and carried a musket in defence of the civil 
authorities in the Kensington and Southwark riots of 1844. After the 
attack on Fort Sumter, in 1861, he raised a company of one hundred 
and two men in Philadelphia, called the Wayne Guards, which was 
accepted by Governor Curtin as part of the Pennsylvania Reserve 
Volunteer Corps. Captain Taggart marched his company to Harrisburg 
on the 7th of June, 1861, and remained in Camp Curtin for several 
weeks in command of it and the camp, until the 25th of July of that 
year, the day on which the Twelfth Regiment of the Reserve Corps was 
organized, when he was elected Colonel, and placed in command of the 
regiment. During this lime he rendered efficient service in preventing 
a serious riot on the return of the three months' enlisted men, who were 
discharged in Harrisburg before being paid off, and great dissatisfaction 
existed at the delay of the paymasters, who were threatened with per- 
sonal violence. For his prudence on this trying occasion Colonel Tag- 
gart received the warm commendation of Governor Curtin. Soon after 
this, the regiment was ordered to Washington, and formed part of the 
division of Pennsylvania Reserves, under command of Brigadier-Gen- 
eral George A. McCall. Colonel Taggart's regiment was assigned to 
the Third Brigade, commanded by Brigadier-General E. O. C. Ord. 
Colonel Taggart, in command of his regiment, took part in the battle of 
Dranesville, December 20, 1861, and for his gallantry in action was 
recommended for Brevet Brigadier-General by General E. O. C. Ord, 
who commanded the Tliird Brigade in that brilliant engagement, which 



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was the first Union success after the first disastrous battle of Bull Run 
and the massacre at Ball's Bluff in the Fall of 1861. Colonel Taggart 
was also highly complimented by General George A. McCall, in his offi- 
cial report of the battle of Mechanics ville, in the first of the seven days' 
battles in front of Richmond, Va., for gallantly defending EUersons 
Mill against an overwhelming force of the enemy. 

Colonel Taggart also commanded his regiment in the battles of 
Gaines' Mill, New Market Cross Roads and Malvern Hill in the Seven 
Days' Battles. He resigned his commission as Colonel July 8, 1863, and, 
after the dissolution of the partnership with Mr. Jones, Colonel Taggart 
again returned to the army as a war correspondent for the Philadelphia 
Inquirer, and in that capacity was at the first battle of Fredericksburg, 
of Gettysburg and other engagements. 

In the beginning of 1864 he was selected by the Supervisory Com- 
mittee for Recruiting Colored Troops in Pliiladelphia as Chief Preceptor 
of the " Free Military School for Applicants for the Command of Col- 
ored Troops," which proved a great success, as upwards of one thousand 
of the students passed General Silas Casey's examination board in 
"Washington, and more than five hundred were commissioned as officers 
in the Union army to command colored troops. This school was organ- 
ized under the authority of Secretary of War E. M. Stanton, and was 
supported by the contributions of the patriotic citizens of Philadelphia. 

After the close of the War of tlieRebelhon, Colonel Taggart, in 1865, 
was appointed Collector of Internal Revenue for the First District of 
Pennsylvania, one of the largest in the State. He held this position for 
nearly a year, and afterwards removed to Washington City, where he 
became a correspondent for the Inquirer, Evening Telegraph, Evening 
Bulletin, and Sunday Dispatch, of Philadelphia, Cincinnati Times and 
Chicago Repuhlica7i. He remained in Washington till the fall of 1869, 
when he removed his family to Philadelphia, and in November of that 
year bought the Sunday Horning Times, published by Robert C. Smith 
& Co. This was enlarged several times, and now enjoys a large and 
prosperous share of business. Colonel Taggart is a vigorous and 
aggressive editorial writer, devoting much attention to the reform of 
local abuses, by which he has established for his paper a reputation of 
fearless independence and as a staunch advocate of the rights of the 
people. In 1871 he associated with him his eldest son, Harry L. Tag- 
gart, under the firm style of John U. Taggart & Son. In October, 1873, 
the publication office was removed from the northeast corner of Third 



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and Dock streets to 819 Walnut street, where they afterwards erected a 
handsome and spacious building, expresbly designed as a newspaper 
office, with extensive back buildings containing the press-room, stereo- 
typing and composing rooms. The name of the paper has been changed 
from tlie Sunday Morning Times to Taggarrg Times, by which it is 
known far and wide. Colonel Taggart is the editor-in-chief ; Harry L. 
Taggart, managing editor ; and William M. Taggart, business manager. 
At the Presidential election in 18SS, Colonel Taggart was chosen as a 
Republican elector for the First Congressional District of Penasylvania, 
and in January, 1889, voted for Harrison and Morton in the Electoral 
College, which met at Harridburg. 



COLONEL RICHARD GUSTIN 
Was born at Frankford, Sussex County, New Jersey, July 5, 1827. His 
father was William Gustin ; mother, Mary Gustin, Colonel Gustin's 
parents were wealthy, and he had the best means of being educated. 
Attended school in Sussex County, New Jersey, and afterwards iu New 
York City. S on after finishing his schooling, his father, through com- 
mercial misfortune, lost his wealth ; he moved to Bradford County, 
Pennsylvania, in 1844. Young Richard went into his uncle's store ; not 
liking this bu iness he learned photography (probably to take daguer- 
reotypes), a business not so easily learned then as now. He taught 
school a short time. After perfecting himself in the photographic busi- 
ness he went to Topeka, Kansas, where he invested Lis savings iu real 
estate. He also contracted for buildings and took part pay in real 
estate. The Kansas troubles coming on he took the Free State side 
against the so-called Border Ruffians. Was Captain of a company. 
When the Free State party was overcome he left Kansas and returned 
to Pennsylvania (1858), and took up his residence near Troy, Bradford 
County, where he married Emily Stull, of Elmira, New York. She 
lived only six months. In May, 1861, he raised the Troy Guards and 
was elected Captain. 

Colonel Gustin's military career was so extensive, and his services 
so numerous and useful to his country, they can only be described by a 
history of the command with which he served. He was never absent 
from du y. He led his company in every engagement until his rank as 
Senior Captain of his regiment entitled him to lead his regiment. As 
Lieutenant- Colonel of his regiment, he commanded the regiment a great 
part of the time, and occasionally the brigade. He was ever the most 



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conspicuous member of his command when the fighting was going on. 
He was one of the few men who seemed born without fear. He was 
repeatedly selected to lead the skirmishers— in short, he was one of the 
fightii-.g fiekl officers of the famous Tliird Brigade, Pennsylvania 
Reserves. 

After the war he went to Topeka, Kansas, but could recover only 
about thirty-one lots out of much real estate to which he had claims. 

He was married a second time, August 1, 1864, to Maria H. AVliite, 
who survives him. He lived in Troy four years, then purchased a farm 
in the town of Jackson, Tioga County, Pennsylvania, and lived there 
until his unfortunate death, which occurred April 12, 1877. He had four 
children, George H. and Richard, and two daughters. The eldest 

daughter married , and lives in Philadelphia. Hi» 

eldest son is studying medicine. 

Colonel Gustin's death is described by an Elmira newspaper as follows: 
" Colonel Richard Gustin, of the town of Jackson, Tioga County, Penn., 
met wilh a fearful death in Elmira at the Water street crossi-g at half- 
past two o'clock yesterday afternoon. He was driving a spirited team 
of horses when they became frightened at a man throwing dirt out of a 
ditch. They sprang out of the control of Colonel Gustin and ran down 
the street at a furious rate. A freight train was passing down the 
track and the horses ran furiously into it, upsetting the wagon and 
throwing Colonel Gustin tlierefrom under the wheels of the cars. Before 
help could come to him fully three cars passed over him, crushing his 
left leg and lower part of his body in a fearful manner. He was 
carried to the office of Dr. J. M. Flood, and an attempt made to relieve 
him. He was past human help. * * * He lived but a few moments 
after arriving at the office.'' 

Colonel Gustin, like many excellent officers, retired from the exciting- 
scenes of the war to the quiet but more useful life of a farmer. That he 
succeeded ia this business as he had as a soldier is shown by the fol- 
lowing " Interesting Memorial Services ": 

"Agreeably to a resolution passed and noticed in last week's Advocate, 
a goodly number of the members of Millerlon Grange, No. 377, met at 
the house of widow Gustin, Saturday afternoon, June 3d. Worthy 
Master Tilliughast, assisted by Worthy Overseer Hamilton, planted a 
beautiful tree (Norway Spruce) in memory of Colonel Gustin, late 
Worthy Master of said Grange. A hymn, 'We will Gather at the 
River,' was sung, prayer offered by Rev. A. Ensign, and appropriate 



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and feeling remarks were made by Rev. A. J. Blanchard. The Rev. A. 
Ensign, being called, spoke partly as follows: ' * * * In assembling 
here to-day to plant this tree in memory of Colonel Richard Gustin, late 
Master of Millerton Grange, No. 377, we do all — yea, more than has been 
described. At the first call of his country he hastened to the front. 
Knowing no fear, he met hand to hand and foot to foot conflict with 
the enraged foe, canopied by the sulphurous cloud. Often faint, starved 
and weary, under the broiling sun, bent by the howling storm, he firmly 
stood for one country and one flag. But his career of usefulness stopped 
not as the clarion's sound of war ceased to vibrate the air of his native 
land. As the banner of his counti-y draped its fokls in pi-ace, he 
unfurled the patron's flag, beat his sword into the ploughshare that 
marked his battle lines; Lis spear into the pruning hook, and turned his 
great genius and mature judgment, like Cincinnatus of o'd, into the 
noble, God-planned work of the husbandman. Here his constant 
excelling, his honest mien, his high social qualities, his deep devotion to 
the best interests of his fellow men, his cheerfulness, like sunbeams of 
midsummer, warmed and enlivened all upon whom they fell. His deeds 
of kindness were scattered to all with a princely hand.' " * * * 

Colonel Gustin was a noble specimen of the American character. 
A kind and loving husband and father, a courageous and skillful soldier 
and a useful and successful citizen, whose death created a great void in 
his neighborhood, and whose memory will ever be cherished by his 
family and friends. 



GENERAL CHARLES W. DIVEN 
Was the son of Thomas N. and Evelina (Barton) Diven ; was bom in 
Huntingdon County, Penn., July 27th, 1831. At sixteen he went to 
Mexico and served through the entire contest in Geary's regiment. In 
May, 1861, came out with "Bailey's Invincibles" as First Lieutenant, 
afterward Company " G " Twelfth Regiment. Served in command of 
thii company through Peninsular and Pope's campaigns, and in the 
battles of South Mountain, Antietam and Fredericksburg, in Gettys- 
burg battle and succeeding campaign, promoted Major for gallant and 
meritorious services in the field, and served as such through Grant's 
campaign to muster out of the regiment. After the muster out of the 
Twelfth Regiment, Pennsylvania Reserves, General Diven raised the 
Two Hundredth Pennsylvania Regiment and joined Grant's army before 
Petersburg. This regiment contained many men who had served in the 



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Twelfth Reserves, who so leavened the spirit of the regiment that it stootl 
like a veteran regiment at the battle of Fort Steadman, where Colonel 
Diven was wounded by explosion of a shell. For his distinguished ser- 
-vices at this bat' le Colonel Diven was breveted Brigadier-General. After 
the war General Diven was prominent in the politics of the State, holding 
for a number of yeai-s the office of Custodian of the State Arsenal. 
General Devin was noted for his " coolness and calmness in battle." He 
had a gentle and most kindly disposition. He was a great sufferer in 
his last years. His children were very delicate, and one by one passed 
away, so that now that our dear friend has himself passed to the homo 
of the good and the noble, there remains only his greatly bereaved 
widow and his many friends to mourn for him. 



O. H. MILLER, CHAPLAIN, 
"Was born June 22, 1822, near Murraysville, Westmoreland County, 
Penn., hard by the place where the original Murraysville gas well was 
drilled. His parents, Joseph Miller and Mary Newton Miller, were of 
Scotch-Irish extraction and had five sons in the army. He was educated 
at and graduated from Washington and Jefferson colleges, 1843, and 
the Western Theological Seminary, 1846. He was licensed to preach in 
1846 and ordained in 1847. His first charge was in Ligonier Valley, 
Westmoreland Covmty, Penn. His second pastorate, from 1848 to 1858, 
was in Lebenon Presbyterian Church, Allegheny County, Penn., near 
Pittsburgh. After two years' missionary service in Iowa he returned to 
New Florence, Westmoreland County, Penn,, where he was settled as 
a pastor when the war broke out. Many of Company " II," Twelfth 
Regiment, P. R. V. C, were from his congregation in Indiana County, 
and in due time he found himself Chaplain of the regiment. After the 
war he was settled as pastor of the church in West Newton during five 
years. In 186!) he became connected with the State School Department, 
where in his third year of service he was appointed by Governor Gerry 
State Librarian for a term of three years, and was re-appointed for a 
like term by Governor Hartranft, From Harrisburg he returned to 
Pittsburgh and soon was elected Chaplain of the Allpghany County 
Workhouse. After serving over five years he was disabled by an attack 
of catarrh, which necessitated his retirement to a fruit farm overlooking 
the Alleghany, and on the lino of the A. V. R. R., eighteen miles above 
Pittsburgh, near Arnold Station, but a little above Parnassas. He 
writes : *' If you will call and see me I will show you the largest variety 



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of apples, peaches, pears, quinces, plums, apricots, nectarines, English 
walnuts, Japan and American chestnuts, with the various small fruits, 
hennery, apiary, etc., etc. 

These are not all yet of bearing age, but many of them are." 

He has two sons, J. Kerwin Miller and J. Wilson IMiller, dealers in 
wall paper, 543 Smithfield street, Pitt^burgh. 

Four daughters, one a graduate of the Pittsburgh Female College, 
and one a graduate of the School of Design. 

Still preaches occasionally. His health has entirely recovered as a 
result of out door life. 

MAJOR HENRY S. LUCAS 
Was born in Wells Township, Bradford County, Pennsylvania, January 
3, 1S35. His parents were of sturdy stock, his ancesters on his father's 
side being Scotch-Irish. Traces of them are first found in Chemung 
County, New York, while that county was yet a wilderness. The 
mother of Major Lucas, Lucy H. Potter, traces her ancestry back to 
the Plymouth Colony. Uriah Lucas, the father of Henry, was a fron- 
tiersman in the truest sense, whose rough but healthful life was spent 
in felling the timber and cleai'ing the land which formed his homestead 
in Wells Township, Bradford County, Penn. Here, amid these surround- 
ings of incredible hardships and toil, Henry S. Lucas was born, and here 
he spent the years of his boyhood in helping to hew a home out of the 
wilderness and provide a living for a rapidly increasing family. For 
about two months each Winter, until bis thirteenth year, he attended 
school, usually presided over by a lady. He then left the old log school 
house, which had served the double purpose of a school hou59 and a 
place of worship on Sunday for the Methodists. With such schooling as 
he had received, and the assistance rendered by his mother at home, he 
had become able to read well, though without having made any special 
literary progress, his surroundings having been better calculated to 
develop the perceptive faculties and muscular powers than his scholas- 
tic abilities. During the next five years he was employed at home, and 
among the neighboring farmers at farm labor, manfully performing his 
share of the work, and becoming inured to all the duties of seed time 
and harvest. At the age of eighteen years he apprenticpd himself to 
a saddle and harness manufacturer, and was duly initiated into the mys- 
teries of that business. Three years of incessant toil by day, and of 
study by night, brought him to the age of which all young men are so 



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delighted to reach, and found him an expert in his chosen business, as 
well as with his stock of knowledge in all the common branches very 
much increased. Five years later, viz., April 20, 1861, found him at his 
bench in the same shop where he commenced to learn his trade. He 
then enlisted as a private, and was subsequently elected First Lieutenant 
of a company which proceeded to Harrisburg, Penn. , and became Com- 
pany " C " of the Twelfth Regiment Pennsylvania Reserves. He was 
appointed adjutant of Camp Curtin by the commander. Captain Tar- 
button, and served in that capacity until the regiment was sent to the 
front, after the first Battle of Bull Run. He also acted as Adjutant of 
the regiment until the Fall of 1861. 

While lying in Camp Pierpont, Virginia, Lieutenant Lucas was 
taken suddenly ill with camp fever, and was delirious for some days, 
but he did not leave camp. With his regiment he participated in the 
battle of Dranesville, and in the seven days' battles in front of Richmond, 
being wounded and captured at the battle of Glendale, June 30th, 1862. 
He was promoted to Captain July 8th, 1862, and exchanged about 
August 20th, 1862. 

He immediately joined his command, participating in the battles of 
Groveton, second Bull Run, South Mountain, and Antietam, where he 
was slightly wounded but did not leave his command. He marched 
with the regiment into Virginia and led his company in the charge at 
Fredericksburg, where he lost over 75 per cent, of his force and was 
again severely wounded. He recovered and rejoined the r» giment in 
time to take i^art in the muddy march under Burnside. Later, he led 
his company at Gettsyburg, Williamsport, Wapping Heights, Bristoe 
Station, Mine Run, Wilderness, and Spottsylvania Court House, where 
(in the latter engagement) he was again severely wounded and taken 
from the field. He was mustered out June 11th, 1864, at Harrisburg, 
Penn. Was breveted Major, March 13th, 1865, for meritorious con- 
duct at the battle of Antietam. As an ofiicer and soldier, he won the 
respect and confidence of his superiors. His love of country, his pru- 
dence and coolness under the most trying circumstances, his watchful 
care for his soldiers, as well as his personal purity and integrity, are 
traits which his comrades will never overlook or forget. 

Upon his return from the army he located at Williamsport, Penn. , and 
commenced the manufacture of harness in all its various branches, and 
in January, 1865, was married to Miss Maitha E. Pinkham, of Tioga 
County, Penn. 



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About April 1st, 1876, he retired from active business, since which 
time he has been variously occupied in clerical positions, having served 
as Deputy Prothonotary, Deputy Sheriff, and in other clerical positions 
about the Court House. He recently held the position of Bookkeeper at 
the United States Court House and Post Office, now being erected at 
Williamsport. Since 1871 he has held the position of Oil Inspector, 
under appointment of the State. 

IQ the poHtical field, Major Lucas has always been active and pro- 
mment in his county, having served as Chairman of his party's City and 
County Committees. He has also served three terms as a member of 
Common Council for the city. In politics he is a Democrat, and, like 
all Democrats reared in his native county, a stiff one. 

• During the Hancock campaign he was a member of the State 
Veteran Executive Committee. He is a man of positive convictions 
aud shows his Scotch blood in the persistency with which he maintains 
an opinion or a position where he thinks he is right. The Major has 
not forgotten how to use the rifle, even in civil hfe, and is an expert at 
bringing down large game. He was for several years president of a 
fish and game club for the protection of game. 

Although he bears upon his person the scars of wounds received in 
preserving the Republic, the Major retains his fine appearance of physi- 
cal strength, and is as erect and soldierly lookmg as ever; he goes in and 
out among his fellow men quietly, serenely and unostentatiously, never 
showing undue excitement, and never loosing his balance; he stiU shows 
signs of having a large reserve force. He is a man who bears close 
acquaintance, a man who is instinctively accorded respect by aU who 
meet him. A man, in brief, among men. It needs but a casual 
acquaintance with him to discover that he possesses all the qualities to 
make him a political or military leader. 



CAPTAIN SCHELLING. 
His father was born in Wurtemburg, Germany, in 1800 or 1801 
Came to Philadelphia about 1815, in which city he followed the trade of 
shoemaker. About 1828 married Miss Mary Piral, of Bethlehem, Pa. 
who came from the old Moravian stock. From this union nine children 
were born. Captain Schelling being the eldest. He was born May 7th, 
1829, at Philadelphia. His parents had little of this world's goods' 
therefore they could give their children only a common school educa- 
tion. Four brothers served in the late war. One was killed at 



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Fredericksburg. Captain Schelling remained with his parents, and 
served bis time as apprtnt ce at house and bign painting. February 9th, 
1847, he enlisted as a private in Eleventh U. S. Infantry, and 
was sent with a detachment to Fort McIIcniy, Baltimore ; remained 
there with SCO officers and men for three weeks, when embarked on 
bark Paoila for Vera Cruz, Maxico. 

The enlistment was for three years or the war ; he was assigned to 
Company " II," Eleventh United States Infantry, commanded by 
Captain F. Fippen, regiment commanded by Colonel Graham. 

Landed at Vera Cruz after the city had been captured by General 
Scott; remained there till 9th or lOih of April, when he continued with 
his command to city of Mexico. " After a good deal of fighting with the 
enemy, this command reached the city and captured it." Colonel Gra- 
ham was killed at Molino del Key. The war being over, on the 9th 
February, 1848, his regiment returned to Vera Cruz, and then 
embarked on ship American and arrived at Fort Ilamilton, N. Y., and 
was mustered out of United States army, August 15th, 1848, receiving 
honorable discharge and pay. Went back to Easton, Penn., and 
followed liis occupation of painter. Married Miss Sarah Snyder, of 
Eastor, Penn., September 2, 1849. Has Lad nine children ; three sons, 
six daughters, all living except one son. 

Belonged to military company of Easton, called "Citizen's Artil- 
lery." Followed occupation of painting till breaking out of the late 
war. With Major Baldy, helped to raise " Easton Guards." This 
company offered its services to the State, May 6th, 1861. May 14th, 
1861, company accepted and left for Harrisburg, and went into Camp 
Curtln and became " E" Company, Color Company Twelfth R serves. 

Captain Schelling served in command of "E" Company until 
August 30, 18C2, when he was severely wounded. Returned to duty 
before Gettysburg and served in command of his company till Septem- 
ber 1, 1863, when he was transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps. Reported 
to Colonel Rush ; was sent out to Fourteenth street, Washington, D. C, 
to organize five companies of men from the field and from the hospitals 
of Washington, D. C, to arm and equip them and forward them to the 
different provost marshals in diffeient States. Was ordered to report 
to Colonel Bomford at Harrisburg, Penn., who assigned Captain Schell- 
ing to " D" Company, Sixteenth United States Veteran Reserves, com- 
manded by Charles M. Provcst, formerly of One Hundred and Eighteenth 
Pennsylvania (Corn Exchange Regiment). All men from "D" 



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Company were from the front and had been wounded, but were able to 
carry muskets ; were well drilled and disciplined and did excellent and 
hard work. They were from Massachusetts, Illinois, Michigan, Penn- 
sylvania and Vermont regiments. Commanded this company to 
end of his service. On G, C. M. here, then ordered to Chambersburg, 
Penn. ; arrived October 3, 1863, under orders of General Couch ; did 
provost duty taking prisoners to Fort Delaware, etc.; was ordered to 
Elmira, N. Y. , December 25. A. banquet given his command at Cham- 
bersburg. Joined Sixteenth United States Veteran Regiment at Elmira ; 
l^erformed provost duty and had charge t f camp here for deserters and 
bounty jumpers ; remained six months, when company and its ofiBcers 
ordered to report to General Pitcher, Provost Marshal of Vermont, at 
Brattleboro. "Whilst here Captain Sclielling applied to Secretary of War 
to join his eld regiment in the field ; was refused. Received a commis- 
sion from President Lincoln ; remained here three months, then ordered 
back to regiment at Elmira with Company " D." There was a prison 
camp of 21, COO rebel prisoners here; remained six months, then 
ordered with company to Ilarrisburg ; remained here one month ; com- 
pany then split up and sent to different places. Headquarters of com- 
pany at HoUidaysburg. Were acting as provost guard along the 
Pennsylvania Railroad. With company ordered to escort body of Mr. 
Lincoln from depot to House of Representatives at Harrisburg. Acted 
as guard of honor as far as Albany, N. Y. Returned to Harrisburg ; 
then to HoIUdaysburg, and then with company to Braddock's Fields, 
near Pittsburg, where West Pennsylvania Volunteers were mustered 
out, Major Morehead, being mustering officer, had charge of Govem- 
men property, ordnance, camp and garrison equipage, etc. 

Was here mustered out September 13, 1866. Residence, 151 Rose 
street, Easton, Penn. 



COLONEL CHILL. W. HAZZARD, 

DEPARTMENT COMMANDER G. A. R, PERSONAL SKETCH OP TEOS 

DISTINGUISHED OFFICER AND CIVILIAN. 

Yesterday's session of the Grand Encampment of the Grand Army of 
the Republic of the Department of Pennsylvania was occupied in ballot- 
ing for Department Commander, Senior Vice-Department Commander, 
Medical Director, Council of Administration and delegates t o the National 
Encampment. Colonel Chill, W. Hazzard, of Post 60, Monongahela 



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City, was elected Department Commander, the vote being as follows : 
Hazzard, 153 ; William A. Stone, of Post 88, Allegheny City, 145. 

Colonel C. W. Hazzard, of Monongahela City, Washington County, 
is a volunteer army officer of high reputation, and one of the best known 
members of the Grand Army of the Republic in the Union. He was 
among the original number who organized the society under the leader- 
ship of United States Senator John A. Logan, of Illinois, some twelve 
years ago, and has been actively engaged in the work ever since. He 
has never before held any department office, though he was frequently 
named for different positions of trust, because he invariably declined to 
allow the use of his name. He was, however, a delegate to the National 
Encampment during the years 1878 and 1879, held at Albany, New 
York, and Springfield, Massachusetts, respectively. He permitted his 
name to be used for the first time at this session for Department Com- 
mander, and though his chief competitor, William A. Stone, Esq., of 
Allegheny City, came to the Encampment with the united support of liis 
city, Pittsburg, the county and the earnest aid of numbers of individual 
members, Colonel Hazzard was elected. The result is more than an 
ordinary compliment, because the votes for both candidates were unsol- 
icited, and are therefore the ^ oluntary expression of a general senti- 
ment which carefully measui-ed the two men and then decided. Mr. 
Stone is the rising young lawyer at the Western Pennsylvania bar, an 
able practitioner and in a large and and lucratvie practice. 
hazzard's military record. 

Hazzard entered the volunteer service as a private in Company " F," 
Twelfth Regiment Pennsylvania Reserves, the Forty-First of the line, 
in May, 1861, and the regiment was mustered into the State service for 
three years. On August 10, 1861, the Twelfth Regiment was mustered 
into the United States service. Private Hazzard was promoted to Lieu- 
tenant, September 10, and to Captain, Company " I," April 20, 1863, and 
was breveted March 13, 1864. As Captain, he w^as transferred to the 
staff as miistering officer, and served in tliis capacity with General S. 
W. Crawford and General William McCandless. He received his brevet 
as Major for gallant and meritorious conduct in the Battle of the Wilder- 
ness, in 1864, at the hands of General George G. Meade. Since the war 
closed he has been connected with the National Guard of Pennsylvania. 
He was Adjutant-General of the Eighth Division under the old regime, 
commanded by General Gallagher. On the reorganization and con- 
solidation of the National Guard under Major-General Hartranft, he 



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was made Inspector-General of the Fourth Brigade, commanded by 
General James A. Beaver, with the rank of Colonel. 

HIS CAREER AS A CIVILIAN. 

Colonel Hazzard is the editor of the Moiiongahela RepuNican, Wash- 
ington County ; lias been in the office for twenty -six years, and has been 
the owner for the past fifteen years. He is also Secretary of the Penn- 
sylvania, Ohio and West Virginia Press Association, to which position 
he has been unanimously elected for the past six years. He is President 
of the Washington County Veteran Association, having been elected 
three times, and Secretary of the Pennsylvania Reserve Association, a 
position he has held for the past eight years. By the partiality of his 
fellow citizens and approval of the President, he enjoys the emoluments 
and honor of the Postmastership of Monongahela City. In tlie height 
of the Junior P. O. S. of A. furor he published and edited the Junior's 
Friend and presided over the first State Convention of the Juniors at 
Altoona. He continues a member of the P. O. S. of A., and is promi- 
nently connected with the Masonic order. 

Personally, Colonel Hazzard is a man of fine appearance, tall, broad- 
shouldered, has a well-knit frame, and looks every inch a soldier. His 
career shows laim to possess a high order of administrative ability, 
tenacity of purpose and superior judgment. While exhibiting a suavity 
of manner, combined with an attractive personal address, he maintains 
an agreeable dignity, indicative of a mental reserve power which gives 
weight to his opinions. There is no more captivating speaker in the 
order, and he numbers his friends by legions. His elevation to the 
ofiice of Department Commander is an honor he has richly deserved by 
years of faithful devotion, and the Department is to be congratulated 
upon its choice. Where Hazzard leads every member of the Order may 
foUow. 



CAPTAIN JAMES BAKER, "l" COMPANY, 
Was bom and raised on a farm adjoining my (Lieutenant F. D. Stevens) 
father's farm in Huntingdon County, Penn. He followed the trade of 
stone mason for several years. At time he entered the service he was 
proprietor of an hotel in Orbisonia. He died at Harrison's Landing, 
Virginia, August 7th, 1862. Seven brothers were in the army, three of 
whom died of disease while in the service; one of them in a Rebel pri- 
son. One died very soon after being discharged for disability; one wa» 
wounded in battle. Only one of the seven is now living. 



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LIEUTENANT FRANK D. STEVENS 
Was born March 13, 1841, in Huntingdon County, Penn. His father's 
name was Benedict Stevens, his mother's maiden name was Eve Orr; his 
father was a farmer. When he was seventeen his father quit the farm 
and engaged in mercantile business, and he was placed as an apprentice 
at house carpentry. Two years later he determined to have an educa- 
tion. Having had a fair common school training, he entered a semin- 
ary. Spring of 1860. ^Taught the following Winter. Spring of 1861, 
enlisted as a private in three month's service ; went with company 
eighteen miles to Mount Union, where expected to get transportation 
to Harrisburg, but were too late, the call having been filled, and were 
compelled to return to their homes. Returned to school during Summer, 
and taught again following Winter. In February, 1862, he again 
enlisted, and on March 13, the day he was twenty-one, he left his home 
with the company. Some time in April they joined the Twelfth Regi- 
ment as Company " I." In May he was promoted from private to 
Orderly Sergeant. Was engaged in firht and second days' batth s on 
Peninsula. On second day was taken prisoner and confined in Rich- 
mond. Being sick for several days previous to the battle, he grew 
worse until four weeks after his capture, when he was paroled, barely 
in time to escape with his life. In hospital several months, and then in 
Camp Parole. 

About December 1, 1862, he, with others, was sent to his regiment. 
There arising some doubt about Ms exchange, it was decided not to 
place him on duty. But, at his request, he went on duty Docember 10, 
and on December 13 went into Fredericksburg battle, where he received 
two wounds ; one serious, on head, other slight, on arm. Sent to 
Alexandria Ho-pital, thence, later, to Rhode Island. In March, 1863, 
was ready for duty, and joined the regiment. A few weeks later was 
commissioned Second Lieutenant, to date July 18, 1862, and was 
mustered in. Was with company and on duty in every battle with the 
regiment from thattima until re^^i nent left the field for muster out, May 
31, 1864, except tme battle, at which time he was off duty on account of 
sickness. He commanded company from abotit July (soon after Gettys- 
burg) until May 31, 1864, Captain and First Lieutenant being on detached 
service. On the 8th of May, 1864, his brother, David W. Stevens, who 
was a Sergeant in his company, was kUIed in ba tie. The following day lie 
•wrapped his body in his own blanket and was placing him in his grave just 
at the moment that General Sedgwick fell a few rodp from the spot. 



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On Miy 31 his company was made Company "D," One Hundred and 
Ninetietli Regiment Veteran Volunteers, and he was placed in command 
of company. In June he was commissioned First Lieutenant. On June 
13, while his corps was moving to cross the James, his regiment was 
left back, and liis company was placed on skirmish line, balance of regi- 
ment being on reserve. In the evening of the same day his command 
charge! by battle line, and he, v.ith a part of the company, several 
cavalry men and two guns of artillery, were captured. He says: " I 
cannot describe my horror at being a prisoner a second time. I was 
robbed of hat, money and watch. Being the only commissioned officer 
among the prisoners, I was taken before Confederate General Wright, 
who tried every possiLlc way to obtain information from me concerning 
the movements of our army. Failing in this, he became enraged, and 
addressed the guard in these words : ' Take him away, and if he don't 
be'iave himself run your bayonet through him.' I had to accompany 
the guard alone thiou.h a thicket of about one half mile, and not with- 
out some fear. Was confined one week in Libby, then sent to Macon, Ga. 

About August 1 we were moved to Savannah, Ga. While here I, 
in company with a large number of fellow prisoners, attempted an 
escape through a tunnel, but the evening before we had arranged for 
our departure a cow on the outside of the stockade, walking over the 
mouth of our tunnel, broke through, and when the first man reached the 
outer end he found a rebel guard stationed there. For this the authori- 
ties threatened to take our tents from us, as our tunnel was started 
under a bunk in one of our tents. About September 10 we were removed 
to Charleston, S. C, and placed in the city jail yard. Here we were 
exposed to the fire of our guns on Morris Island. We had no quarters 
of any kind ; were exposed to the hot rays of tlie sun without any pro- 
tection. The yard was alive with lice, having been used for a length of 
time as a prison pen. This was the most filthy place of all, and the suf- 
fering with heat by day and cold at night was by no means easily endured. 

During October we were sent to Columbii, S. C. S^me said the 
reason of our removal was tliat the Federal Government had placed 
Rebel i^risoners on Morris Island under fire of tlieir own guns, in retalia- 
tion. Others said it was because of yellow fever, which had broken out 
among the Rebel soldiers, the Captain in charge of us having died of the 
disease. At Columbia we were placed in an old opea field witliout a 
stockade, a heavy guard line and an inner dead line. Here we spent 
most of the Winter without any shelter whatever, and we wei e com- 



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pelled to dig down and live in tlie ground with, perhaps, some briiJi to 
cover us. While in this camp I and five comrades attempted to escape 
one dark night by running the guard, "We were fired upon, one of our 
number being shot in the arm, causing amputation. We were driven 
back, and thus another attempt to escape found a failure. I do not want 
to say much, but I want to assure you, General, that during my 
imprisonment I learned what hunger was, and what real suffering was. 
I knew what it was to lie all night not able to sleep a wink because of 
the cold. I came from prison in March, 1805, more loyal and more 
willing to fight than ever before. 

April 17, 18G5, I was honoi'ably discharged at Camp Parole by 
special order. Two or three days later I had the sad privilege of join- 
ing tlie procession that followed the remains of our dear President from 
the "White House to the Capitol. "We were five brothers in the Army 
of the Potomac, serving respectively from two to over three years. 
Four of us are living to-day, two of whom passed through the war 
unhurt, one fell in battle, one was totally disabled in right arm, being 
shot through above and below elbow." After the war he graduated at 
Iron City Commercial College, Pittsburg, Penn., after which he was 
a teacher in that college for six months. He resigned his position there, 
and in March, 1867, engaged in the hai'dware business in Mount Union, 
Penn., in which business he remained until October, 1884, when he sold 
out his business and moved to California. In October, 1885, he engaged 
in the hardware business in Pasadena, where he now is the senior mem- 
ber of The Stevens Hardware Company. He was married to Miss Annie 
A. Bush, of Orbisonia, Penn., July, 1867. In April, 1881, she died, leav- 
ing four children. In December, 1883, he was married to Miss Annie 
Hiney, of Mount Union. The following year he sold out his business 
and brought her an invalid to South California, but disease was rap- 
idly doing its work and in a few months slie died. In October, 1887, he 
married Miss Dora M. Bucher, of Philadelphia, Penn, 

His father and mother had fifteen children. They lived together 
nearly sixty -one years, and died within a period of nine months. At 
the time of their death they had living and dead 128 children, grand- 
children and gi-eat-grandchUdren. 



FIRST LIEUTENANT P. O. ETCHISON, "i" COMPANY, 
"Was a resident of Shirleysburg, Huntingdon County, Penn. He died 
soon after he resigned. 



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SECOND LIEUTENANT SAMUEL J. CLOYD, "l" COMPANY, 
Was born and raised on a farm near Orbisonia, Huntingdon County, 
Penn, He was wounded at Antietam, losing his right arm. Since the 
war he has served a term of three years as County Treasurer of Hunt- 
ingdon County. He now resides in a retired way on the old farm place. 

SERGEANT FRANCIS FISH, "C" COMPANY, 
Was born in Bristol, K. I., March 5, 18:J6; moved with liis parents to 
Troy, Bradford Coimty, Penn., in 1838, living in and near Troy. 
Attending school, working on a farm, and at the butcher business, etc., 
until the war. Was the first one to put his name to the roll in (Troy 
Guards) Company "C," Twelfth Regiment Pennsylvania Reserve Volun- 
teer Corps. A pril 17th, 1861, was elected Sergeant; was a good and faith- 
ful soldier, and became Sergeant of the Regimental Pione* rs cr Sappers 
and Miners. Was wounded in the leg below the knee at the last battle 
of Bull Run. Was discharged on account of said wound, April 16th, 
1863. 

Returning to Troy, and soon after engaged in the livery business, 
then at his old trade, the butcher business. Married, and at his death 
left wife, one daughter and one son. Without any doubt his wound 
shorteneil his dayr, as he carried the bullet in his leg nearly twenty 
years before it Avorked out. 

Wag a member of Gustin Post, No, 154, Department of Pennsyl- 
vania, G. A. R., at his death. 

ORDERLY-SERGEANT JAMES JOHNSON, "E" COMPANY, 
'Wasbornin Easton, Penn., September 9, 1841; son of James John- 
son and EKzabeth Christian Johnson. Went to public school till ten 
years old, then, on account of death of his mother, was taken from 
school and put to work to earn his living. Worked in a bottling estab- 
lishment, then on a farm, then drove mules on a canal, then on a farm, 
then in woods getting out lumber, Lark and railroad ties, and assisted 
down the river to market these ; then drove team, and delivered ties 
and lumber. Made a short trip with a circus ; left that very quick (did 
not suit him). After the war, was on the river, then went to work for 
Bil. Del. Railroad Company, under the old Camden and Amboy Rail- 
road, in 1886. On March 6 went to work for the Lehigh Valley Rail- 
road as station baggage master. In 1870, was promoted to be a passen- 
ger train conductor, and been in employ of company ever since as such„ 
running every day and sometimes on Sunday. 



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Sprgeant Johnsou's coniuct in rescuing the regiaiental flag is 
described by Lieutenant Fackenthal, commanding Company " E," as 
follows: "The salvation of our old battle flag by Orderly-Sergeant 
James C, Johnson, of Company ' E,' Color Company of Twelfth Regi- 
ment, at the Battle of Laurel Hill, Va., on the 10th of May, 1804. On 
the day above mentioned the regiment occupied an entrenched position 
at tlie edge of a woods, while the Confederates were just as nicely fixed 
on the opposite side of the woods, about a half a mile distant, with an 
open field in their front and bat eries in position to harrow and cross 
harrow the ground at the same time. Late in the day we received 
notice that a grand charge, all along the line, would be made about 
sundown. Forty rounds extra amunition were issued, and a hasty meal 
of hard-tack and salt pork jjartaken of. WhUe eating, my messmate, 
George Ketledge, was instantly killed by a shell from Rebeldom burst- 
ing over us. Our orders were : ' Still charga and cold steel '; and just 
as the sun kissed the tops of the trees upon the hill ia our rear; where 
General Sedgwick was killed the day before. Grant gave the signal 
forward. The Twelfth advanced by division, Companies 'E' and ' F' 
forming centre division, and having in charge the colors. Before 
leaving the woods the troops on our right commenced to yell, giving 
the enemy timely notice of our approach, and he replied vigorously 
with shot, sheU, grape and canister. The rear of cannon and 
rattle of musketry was deafening, and when we reached the clearing 
those follows who yelled so lustily in the start broke and ran for 
dear life, and no power on earth could stop them, and Hhe jig 
was up.' 

Color-Sergeant William H. Weaver, of the Twelfth, was hit by a 
grape and fell upon his flag. The regiment was swept back like chaff 
before a hurricane, and the rout was complete. Sergeant Johnson, see- 
ing the colors drop, ran to Weaver and pulled the flag from under him, 
and vainly attempted to rally the men, but it was too hot. Waving the 
old tatteri d and torn flag in their teeth, he gave them three bucks and a 
ball and skedaddled for our side of the woods with the Johnnies close 
upon his heels. In the meantime (and a mean time it was) our boys got 
home, and seeing Johnson coming through the brush, mistook him for 
a Rebel sergeant, and, of course, opened fire on him. Seeing the dan- 
ger, he dodged behiut' a tree until the shower passed, aud the next 
minute was safe within our works. The division on our right did not 
stop behind their works, but continued their flight far to the rear. The 



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Reserve Division not only occupied their own front that night, but alao 
the grouQd of the division on our right. 

Johnson had bravely saved oar old battle flag, and if the Lieutenant 
in command did then and there kiss him under a scordiing fire of 8hot 
and shell, what of it; it is the only recognition he has ever received for 
the gallant act, notwitlistanding m3mber3 of Congress have been 
informed of the facts and a suitable reward requested." 

GEORGE H. MASON, "C" COMPANY 
Bom March 10, 1833. Son of Georgs Mason aud Fidelia Hitt. Brou-ht 
up on a farm near Troy, Pena., goiag t. school three months in Summer 
and three months in Winter. At.seventeen went to work for lii;nself • 
worked on a farm; voted for Abraham Lincoln; joined Troy Guards April 
80, 1861 ; Corporal August 7, 1862. August 10. 1833, Third Brigade ord- 
ered across the Potomac to picket. February 15, 1363, detailed wiUi part 
of Company " C," Lieutena it Luca^ commanJing. to go to Chain Brid-e 
to do guard duty ; remamed there till March 11, 1863, when were reUeved 
andstarted to rejoin command. Upon arriving a',. Camp Pierpont found 
army gone ; overtook regiment at Hunter's Mills ; badly wounded at 
Soutii Mountain. Mason writes : " Was helped off the field by Lieu- 
tenant Jewell, Comrades Spence, James Peters and others ; was carried 
back to an old log hou^e ; no one being at home but the lady of the house 
my wound was here examined, an I . ur Regimental Sargeon said the 
bullet was where he could not extract it, but would have to remain in 
the body. 

Wliile laying on the floor in the evening of the day I was wounded 
a little incident occured t'lat I stiU remember. It was, as I lay there 
with my eyes closed, and, of course, a little weak from tlxa effects of * 
the wound, I distinctly saw a new made grave with dirt thrown oat in 
a pile, and a box there ready for use; aLo distinctly heard a voice say 
that was for me, and my answer was you do not get ma into that hole 
yet, and opened my eyes with a strong determination, God willin-, I 
would not go into that hole at present ; it is most twenty-seven yeare, 
and have not fallen in it yet. After getting t>/his house I thought I 
would Hke some rations to eat ; our haversacks were empty, or nearly 
80, and the best the lady of the hoas3 could afford was some sour thick 
milk; her cows had been scared or driveii away by the racket about the 
place, so she could not furnish any sweet milk, but the boys t.)ok the 
thick milk, put some sugar in it, and scraped off some crumbs of hard- 



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tack for my supper; it, of course, was no j quite so nice as toast and sweet 
cream, yet it answered the same purpose. Comrade Cyrus Spence, who 
stayed over night witli me, the next day went back to the company, 
and on the 17th, in the battle of Antietam, was shot through and 
through the Iieart and instantly killed ; was a nohle, brave young man; 
all that knew him loved him. I was taken back to the Novitiate Hos- 
pital in Frederick, Md, , September 19 ; the bullet showed itself and the 
surgeon cut and extracted it, and I still keep it as a reminder of other- 
days * * *." 

May 1st, 1861, found my brother, Daniel J., at work in a saw mill 
at Corning, N. Y. I wrote liim from Troy, Penn., that I had enlisted, 
and he immediately came to Troy and joined the Troy " Guards," and 
went with us, and remained with the company, as one of its best men, 
till the battle of Fredericksburg, when, in the fatal charge, and with a 
few men well in advance, was known to be wounded, but nothing more 
could ever be seen or heard of him, and was reported as woimded 
and missing. My brother William G. volunteered early in the war, and 
went from Minnesota, where he was living, served tlu*ee years, and. 
returned to Minnesota, all broken up by injuries and exposures." 

SOLDIER'S MEDITATION. 
G. II. Mason, Dear Comrade : 

I am sitting to-day in my new home, 

The sun is running high. 
And thinking, dear Jack, of the comrades 
That we messed with in days gone by. 

'Twas many a time we stood on picket, 

All the dirk and weary night. 
And watched for the dawning morrow. 

And dreamed of the coming fight. 

As I sit and think, dear Jack, 

Other forms I see. 
That stood in line of battle. 

By the side of you and me. 

The Troy Guards met the foe on many fields^ 

And did their duty well ; 
But naught is left to mark the spot, 

Where many of the Troy Guards fell. 



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No camp fire burns to-day, dear Jack, 

Along Virginia's shore ; 
No picket keeps his weary watch, 
T As in those days of yore. 

But in that land where war is unknown, 

Where strifes never come, 
May you and I, with them at last, 

Find our eternal home. 

As we gathered around the.camp fire, 

"We thought of the days to come. 
When we could stack our guns 

And return to our dear home. 

Now we think of the reunion, dear Jack, 

The one that is to come ; 
We long for the time, dear Jack, 
In Troy, where the boys will beat the drum. 
Yours inF. C. L., 
Central City, Neb., June 18, 1884. Cyrus D. Chapman, 



WILLIAM W. WOODS, "l" COMPANY. 
SKETCH FROM THE EDITOR'S NOTE BOOK. 

About the middle of last February a man entered my office, and, 
speaking casually, took a seat. I did not recognize him readily, but 
soon he turned his head, and I saw the profile of a face known twenty- 
five years ago. Gray hairs did not hide the features of William W. 
Woods, once the handsome young First Sergeant, who had trudged by my 
side many a long mile down in Virginia, back in the sixties. One day 
a bit of lead tore out the corner of hi -> eye, and that organ went bUnd. 
Since the war, he told me, he had studied medicine, and was then in 
active practice. His one eye gone out, he had replaced with a glass eye, 
and went on with his profession, to which he was devotedly attached. 
He was called to Pittsburg to have the remaining eye treatei by a 
skilled optician, for symptoms of pain darting t'.irough it hke a flash of 
torture told his professional mind that tbe windows of his soul were 
soon both to be closed, and that entire blindness was to shut out the 
light of Heaven, the smUe of wife, the faces of children and friends, and 
the chrism of Ufe. It is a terribly sad thing to go blind for ever ! The 



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Pittsburg physician confirmed his worst suspicions. The verdict was 
sealed. 

This was the story he told me, and it was a sad one. We "visited" 
together, and away into the night recalled stories of march and bivouac, 
and the memory of friends in the old Twelfth Reserves. Next day, 
when he went away, the doctor said, as he tremulously pressed my 
hand, "Good bye. Chill, old boy, I am going blind. I wanted to see 
you once more before that happened to me, and tliis good bye means 
more to me than you can ever understand. " Then he grasped my hand 
warmly, this gallant soldier, who had faced a thousand deaths without 
tremor, and stepping into the car, was gone. I choked back a lump in 
my throat, and hoped it might not be so bad. Alas, it was to be more 
than true. 

Yesterday came a letter from his dear wife, which told a sad story. 
The Sergeant had been mustered out — he was dead. The darkness waa 
crowding down upon him, but an angel had taken him by the hand and 
led his soul up into the light. Gentle fellow, how he must have suf- 
fered. C. W. H. 



WILSON C. FOX 
Was bom at Newville, Cumberland County, Penn., July 34, 1844 ; par- 
ents, Henry C. Fox and Martha E. Fox ; schooling was meagre tmlil 
two years prior to the war. Up to that time had bven with his father, 
who was engaged in the woolen manufacture. After his term expired 
he spent one Winter in the Academy. From that he went to railroad- 
ing, and rose from freight brakeman to baggage master. He traveled 
three years for the Grim and Baker Sewing Machine Company, 
then entered the employ of the Harrisburg Mill Company, Senator 
J. Don Cameron, treasurer, as bookkeeper and paymaster for the 
next eleven years, at which time the mill changed hands and he 
accepted a clerkship in post office; the next year appointed Chief of 
PoUce, from which he resigned to accept the management of the Har- 
risburg Photo. Copying House. At the expiration of two years, and 
the death of the proprietor, he bought this studio fi'om the widow. 
Politically he is a Republican, having served seven years aa secretary of j 
the best Young Mens Republican Club in the city or State. ' 

His father entered the service in August, 1863, as Commissary } 
Sergeant, Company " C," Third Heavy Artillery; promoted Second 
and First Ldeuttuant, afterwards commanded Company " K," One Hun- 



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dred and Eighty-Eighth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, aa Cap- 
tain; Appointed Chief of Ambulance on Staff of General Butler; par- 
ents reside in the city. His family consists of wife, two boys and 
two girls, W, Stewart, Ella M. (Dale Edgar and Daisy Edna — 
twins). 



JAMES P. GILES, "l" COMPANY, 
Was bom at Lewiston, Penn., September 29, 1844. Educated at public 
schools and academy. Occupation for a long time, teaching. Elected 
member of Pennsylvania Legislature from Huntingdon County in 1884. 
At present (1889) Statistical Clerk in State Department of Public 
Instruction. Served with " I " Company till muster out of Twelfth 
Reserves, when became a member of " D" Company, One Hundred and 
Ninetieth Pennsylvania. Most of this company was captured August 
19, 1864, at Weldon Railroad, Va. Was confined for about six montlis 
in Libby Prison, Belle Island and Saulsbury. He writes : " Most of 
those captured died in prison or afterwards from the effects of prison 
Ufe." 



SUMMARY OF BIOGRAPHY. • 

The writer regrets his inability to give the personal history in civil 
life, as well as in the regiment, of all the officers, and of those non-com- 
missioned officers and privates who specially distinguished themselves. 
He has made strenuous efforts to get such information, but partly 
through his inability to reach them, and partly through the indifference 
of those who have received his letters and circulars, he is obliged to 
publish the history of the Regiment with this most interesting part very 
incomplete. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 

It was proposed to erect a Memorial Hall for the Reserves at Gettys- 
burg. A bill for this purpose passed the Legislature, but it was vetoed 
by Governor Beaver. • 

The State Monuments for the reserve regiments were deidicated iu' 
September, 1890. 

The writer has been able to attend but one of the annual meetings 
of the Reserve Division Association, but he is informed they are invari> 
ably successful and quite fully attended. 

"C" Company keeps up annual meetings, etc. 



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" War Department, A. G. O. ) 
Washington, November 18, 1889. ) 

Colonel J. P. Nicholson, Secretary Pennsylvania Board of Commia- 
sioners on Gettysburg Monuments, Philadelphia, Penn. 
Sir: In complying with your request of 5th ult., I have the honor 
to furnish from the records of this office the following information 
relative to the Twelfth Reserves, namely: Muster in May 30 to July 3, 
1861; mustered out June 11, 1864. Strength at Gettysburg, return for 
June 30, 1863, reports twenty-six officers and two hundred and ninety- 
four men present for duty; the number taken into action is not of 
record. Losses at Gettysburg, one man killed, one wounded. Total 

losses in action: 

Officers. Men. Total. 

Killed 1 60 61 

Wounded 15 263 378 

Captured or missing 2 95 97 

18 418 437 j 

total deaths. I 

Officers. Men. Total { 

Killed in action 1 60 61 ; 

« Wounds received in action 52 52 

Of disease 1 65 66 

Other causes 4 4 

2 181 183 

Total enrollment 1,100. 
Approximate estimate (only men in United States service). 

BATTLES, etc. 

Dranesville, Gaines Mill, Glendale or New Market Cross Roads, 
Malvern Hill, Groveton, Bull Rim (second). South Mountain, Antietam, 
Fredericksburg, Gettysbiu-g, Bristoe Station, Rappahanmock Station, 
Mine Run, Wilderness, Spottsylvania , North Anna, Toloptomoy, Bethesda 
Church. Very respectfully, 

C. McKeever, a. a. G." 

Note. — No record of officers and men who were wounded or 
captured more than once. 



FROM OFFICIAL RECORDS FOR TWELFTH REGIMENT. 

Total 
Killed. Wol-nded. MissiNa. K.W.M. 
Offs. Men. Offs. Men. Offs. Men. Otfrt. Men. 

Dranesville 

Mechanicsville 

Gaines Mill 

New Market C ross Roads 1 

Second Bull Run 

South Mountain 

Antietam 

Fredericksburg 

Gettysburg 

Wilderness 

Spottsylvania 

North Anna 

Bethesda Church 







1 


2 




11 


5 


*1 


*12 


5 


2 


36 


5 


3 


35 


6 


1 


18 


13 


2 


44 


Id 

1 




1 
3 


7 




16 

"i 



T) 




18 


8 


1 


25 


24 


3 


65 


23 


• >• 


66 




1 


24 


2 


2 


59 


"2 


7 


110 

2 

3 

25 



Seven days 1 

* Captured. 



12 



58 



87 



14 399 



ABSTRACT FROM RETURNS TWELFTH REGIMENT P. R. V. C. 



Present for 
Duty. 

1861. Offs. Men. 

August 28 741 

September 27 701 

October 28 694 

November 26 295 

December 23 677 

1862. 

January 26 706 

February 28 681 

March 21 681 

April 24 682 

May 33 726 

June 27 587 

July 19 538 

No August 

September 12 324 

October 12 351 

November 16 351 

December 9 263 

1863. 

January 10 280 

February 10 299 

March 13 301 

April 24 329 

May 26 350 

June 26 294 

July 22 260 

August 18 254 

September 22 275 

October 19 279 

November 16 283 

December 12 290 

1864. 

January 17 227 

February 22 265 

March 16 306 

April 19 320 





Aggregj 


ate 


Aggre- 


Present 


gate 


and 




Present. 


Absent 


, 


831 


843 




823 


849 


Last return 861. 


808 


859 




817 


864 


Last return 860. 
Error 


797 


849 


Last return 863. 


777 


830 




751 


804 




740 


803 




730 


893 


Gain of "I" Co. 


810 


885 




717 


831 


Agg. last ret. 884. 


685 


796 




421 


735 




408 


695 




413 


659 




324 


575 




335 


563 




360 


548 


On daily 


378 


528 


Extra 


413 


546 


Duty. Sick. 


436 


549 


Offs. Men. Offs. Men 


370 


546 


1 38 1 10 


333 


538 




323 


515 




328 


508 




330 


483 




345 


487 




348 


481 




287 


468 




319 


461 




403 


475 




437 


493 





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COMMANDERS OF THIRD BRIGADE P. R. V. C. 
Colonel McCalmont, from Organization to November, 1861. 
General Ord, from November, 1861, to June 18, 1862. 
General Seymour, from June 18 to June 30, 1862. 
General C. F. Jackson, from June 30 to August 21, 1862, A. P. 

General C. F. Jackson, from August 21 to August 3), 1862, Pope's 
Army. 

Hardin, Kirk (Tenth) and Anderson (Ninth), August 30, 1862 (battle 
Second Bull Run). 

Lieufenant-Colonel Anderson (Ninth), from August 30 to September 
6, 1862. 

Colonel Gallagher, from September 6 to September 14, 1862. 

Colonel Anderson (Ninth), from September 14 to , 1862. 

General Jackson, from to December 13, 1862. 

Tolonel Jackson (Eleventh), from Dtcember 13 to December, 1862. 

Colonel Hardin, from December, 1862, to January, 1863. 

Colonel Fisher (P'if th), from January to August 10, 1863. 

Colonel Hardin, from August 10 to August 13, 1863. 

Colonel Jackson (Eleventh), from August 13 to August 15, 1863. 

Colonel Fisher, from August 15 to September 17, 1863. 

Colonel Hardin, from September 17 to September 19, 1863. 

Colonel Fisher, from September 19 to September 20, 1863. 

Colonel Hardin, from September 20 to December 4, 1863. 

Colonel Fishf r, from December 4, 1863, to January 27, 1864. 

Lieutenant-Colonel Dare, from January 27 to January 30, 1864. 

Colonel Fisher, from January 30 to February 25, 1864. 

Lieutenant-Colonel Gustin, from January 25 to February 26, 1864. 

Colonel Fisher, from February 26 to February 27, 1864. 

Lieutenant-Colonel Gustin (Twelfth), from February 27 to Febniarv 2a 
1864. ' ' 

Colonel Fisher, from February 28 to March 29, 1864. 

Lieutenant-Colonel Gustin, from March 29 to March 30, 1864. 

Colonel Fisher, from March 30 to June 11, 1864. 



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DIVISION COMMANDERS P. R. V. C. 
Greneral McCall, from Organization to June 30, 1863. 
General Seymour, from June 30 to August 21, 1862, 
General Rt ynolds, from August 21 to September 12, 1863. 
General Meade, from September 13 to September 17, 1862. 
General Seymour, from September 17 to September 29, 1862. 
General Meade, from September 29 to December 25, 1862. 
General Doubleday, from December 25, 1862, to January 18, 1863. 
Colonel Sickel (Third), from January 18 to February 9, 1863. 
Colonels McCandless and Sickel, from February 9 to June 3, 1863. 
General Crawford, from June 3 to August 28, 1863. 
Colonel McCandless, from August 28 to November 1, 1863. 
General Crawford, from November 1 to December 7, 1863. 
Colonel McCandless, from December 7 to December 12, 1863. 
General Crawford, from December 12, 1863, to February 20, 1864. 
Colonel McCandless, from February 20 to May 1, 1864. 
General Crawford, from May 1 to May 31, 1864. 
Colonel McCandless, from May 31 to June 11, 1864. 



CORPS DIVISION OF P. R. V. C. SERVED IN 

First Corps (McDowell's) part of May and June, 1862, near Freder- 
icksburg. 

Fifth Corps (A. P.) Porters, part of June, July to August 13, 1862. 

Ninth, Burnside's, near Falmouth, August 13 to August 24, 1862. 

Third Corps. A. N. Va. (McDowell), August 25, 1862, nearWar- 
renton. 

First Corps (Hooker) Bumside's grand division, Ninth and First 
Corps, September 6 to 17, 1862; through South Mountain and Antietam 
campaigns — Hooker or Meade commanding corps. After Antietam, 
Reynolds Commanding First Corps, until February 10, 1863, when 
division moved to Washington. 

Department of Washington, Twenty-Third A. C. (Heintzelman), 
February 10 to June 23, 1863. 

Fifth A. C. A. P. (Sykes), June 28, 1863 to end of service. 

Sykes relieved by Warren March 33, 1864. 



MUSTER-OUT ROLL OF FIELD AND STAFF AND NON- 
COMMISSIONED STAFF. 



NAME AND RANK. 



Colonels. 
John H. Taggart Colonel. 



Muster-in. 



Rank. 



Martin D. Hardin. 



Lt. Colonels. 

Daniel N. Bailey 

Peter Baldy 

Richard Gustiu 

Majors. 
Charles W. Diven . . . 



Andrew J. Bolar 

Surgeons. 

Wm. H. Thome 

Iiaac J. Clark 

Ass't Surgeons. 

James B. Crawford.. . 

Henry A, Grim 

James M. Shearer 

Wm. Taylor .. 

David R. Beaver 

Adjutant. 
Theo. McMurtrie 

Chaplains. 

W. B. Holt 

Obadiah H. Miller. . . 

Quartermasters. 

Kliene D. Rpid 

James T. Woodall ... 

Sergeant Majors. 
Charles Thompson . . . 

Wm. Myers 

Joseph W. Eckley 

QuarternVr Sergeants. 
Charles T. Harvey 



Charles W. Cioas'daie 

James Loan 

Hospital Steivards. 

T-e Moyne 

John Evans 

Surgeon's Mate. 

Thomas R. Williams.. 

Commissary Serg''ts. 

Henry D. J. Bell 

Henry W. L. Drips... 
Henry W. Dean 

Henry Krafft 

Drum Majors. 
Lew. . o. Ivliiler 

Jacob Eppley 

John B. Bckart '. 



Lt.-Col. 



Lt.-Col.. 
Major... 
Captain. 



Captain. 
Captain. 



Surgeon.. 
As. Sur.. 



Date. 



Aug. 10, 
July 8, 



Aug. 10, '61. 



DISCHARGED. 
How and When. 



Resigned July 
Exp. service.., 



8, '62. 



Mar. 4, '62 

rfesigned Feb. 
Exp. service. . 



15, '63. 



Adjutant 
Chaplain. 



Q'master 
Corporal. 



Sgt. Maj 
Private... 
Pi'ivate... 



Q'm Sgt.. 
'Jorporal. 

Private... 



FI. St'd.. 
Sergeant 

Private... 

1st Sgt... 
Corporal. 



Musician, 

Corporal. 
Private... 



June 21. '62 
Oct. 6, '62.. 
Apr. 11, '63 
Aug, 2, '63. 
Apr. b, '64.. 



Dec. 5, '61.. 



Dec. 11, '61. 
J.iU. 18, '62. 



Aug. 10, '61. 



Exp. service 

For w'ds, July 30, '63. 



Bv promotion. 
Exp. service... 



REMARKS. 



Reinstated by order Sec. War Aug IQ 
'02; dischargtd Sept. 2.3, '62. * 

Com'd Col. July 8. '62; Col. Sept, 1. '62- 
w d GrMVeton, Va , Aug. 29. '62; 2d B 
Run, Aug. 30, '02; near Catlett's St'n. 
)^«-'P^c. 13, '63; North Anna May 23. 
'64 ; Bng.-Gen. Vol. July 2, '64. 

How discharged unknown. 

^-TT-I^y*"*^'- ■^P''- 6' '6'^; B'^-'t Col. for 
}\ilderness; vv,i by Gu-rn.las near 
Catlett's 8fn Dec. U '(4 

P. Apr. 19, '64; Col 200th Pa.; w'd at Ft. 
Steadman.Va ; B'v't Brig-Gen 

Com'd Major July 8, '62. 



P. Britr. Surgeon Apr. 2S, '62. 
K\^"L?.?'" Apr. 28, '62; B v't Lt.-CoL 
tor M licernt'ss. 



Discharged Sept. 18, '62 

By promotion 

DischaruPd Aug 18. '63 
Resigned Dec. 20, '62 
Exp. service 



By transfer to I Corps. 



Never joined. ... 
Resigned June 9, '63. 



By promotion. 
Exp. service.. . 



By promotion. 
Re-enlist Vet.. 



By transfer 

By promotion. 

Exp. service... 



P. Surgeon 5th Reserves April 15, '64. 



rrs. to Invalid Corps Oct 18 '63 • w'd 
&cap'd at Fredricksburg ; B'v't Mai 
for Fredricksburg. 



By promotion. 
Exp. service... 



By transfer. 



By promotion 

By transfer 



Exp. service. 
By transfer.. 



P. Captain A. C. S. Sept. 22 '62 

P. Q'm-Sgt Feb., '62; Qm Nov 2-3, '62- 

remained back with 190th Pa., apptM 

Brig. -Q'm. ^ 

P. Elected l.^^t Lt. A Co. Dec. T, '61- res 

July 11 '62; probably nev<-r mustered.' 

Vpfn-2'%.'''^'^-''''^^'^^'^^-^^'- 

^ .^^^,t--Major May 1, '63; re-enl. vet. in 
i^ Co.; see record in F Co. 

Dropped and sent to Co. B Dec. '61 

\^''^:^?i- ^'o^- '' '62; 1st Lt. A Co. 
May 1. '63. 
P. Q'm-Sgt. May 1, '63. 

P. made Medical Cadet Oct. 1. •6^ 
P. Hospital Steward Nov. 8, '61. 



P. Surg.-mate Aug. 31, '61; returned to 
A Co. Oct. 1, '61. 

P. Com-y-Sgt. Aug. 31, '61; 2d Lt. F Co. 

Sept. lu, 'Gl. 
P. Com'y-Sgt. Feb. '62; ret'd to Co H 
P. Com'y-Sgt. Mar. 21, '62; ret'd to Co". 

B June, '62. 
P. Com'y-Sgt. June, '62. 

^Mar 2^^}i''^- ^' '^^' ""^'^ *° ^«- 

„ . P- DrumMaj. Mar. 22,'f2TefdtoCo a 

E^P- service P. Drum Maj. Aug.'4, '62 princip^i 

musician Aug., '68. 



MUSTER-OUT ROLL OF ''A" COMPANY, 



NAME AND RANK. 


Muster-in. 


DISCHARGED. 
How and When. 


•REMARKS 




Rank. 


Date. 




Captains. 

Henry B. Whisner 

Frank Daniels 


Captain.. 
Sergeant. 

1st Lieut. 
Corporal. 
Sgt. Maj. 

•2d Lieut.. 
Sergeant. 

Corporal. 

Sergeant. 
Corporal. 

Sergeant. 

Corporal. 

Private... 

Musician. 

Recruit . 
Private... 

Corporal. 

Private.. . 

Recruit.. 
Private... 

Recruit.. 
Private... 


Aug. 10, '61. 

Sept. 12, '61 
Aug. 10, '61. 

Feb. 19, '63. 
Aug. 10, '61. 

Mar. 26, '63. 
Aug, 10, '61. 

Nov. .3, "63.. 
Aug. 10, '61. 


Resigned Dec. 4, '61... 


P. 1st Sgt. Oct. 11, '61; elec. 1st Lt Oct 


1st Lieutenants. 
La Fayette Palmer 

Charles W. Croasdale. 


Resigned Oct. 8, "61. . . . 
Exp. service 


11, '61; Cap'tDec. 4,'61; u'r mustered. 

Enlisted as private in this Co. Mar. 4, '62; 

see sub. record. 
P. Sgt. Oct. 11, '61; Q'm-Sgt. Nov 1 , 62; 


Charles Thompson. . . . 

2d Lieutenants. 

Georgre W. Montony.. 

Joseph B Vallee 

Frank Quautin 

1st Sergeants. 

Charles Dausjherty . . . . 
Henry B. Bayne 

Sergeants. 

Jos W Killinffsworth. 


Resigned July 11, '62.. 

Resigned Oct. 8, '61.... 
Resigned Nov. 13, '63. . 
Exp. service — 

Disability Dec. 18, '61.. 
Killed in action 


1st Lt. May 1, '63. 
P. Elected 1st Lt. Dec. 7, '61. 

Re-e. as pvt ; killed in a.; see sub. rec'd 
P. 1st Sgt. Aug. 31, 61; 2d Lt. Oct. 11, '61. 
P. Ist Sgt. Dec. 18, '61; 2d Lt. May 1, '63. 

P. 1st Sgt. Oct. 11, '61. 
P. 1st Sgt. May 1, '63; re-enlisted Vet; 
killed in Wilderness. 


James M. Allen 


Re-ealist Vet 


Wd. Antietam; tr. " H " 190; pr. Aug. 19, 


Luther D. Middlekauf . 

Samuel Simon . . 

Wm. H. Ellis 


Disability Sept. 15, '62. 
Killed in action 


"64; dcd. June 13, '65; reported died 

at SauLsbury. 
Pr. N. M. Xrds.; tr. fr. "K" Co.; to 

" H •' 190 (Sgt.); pr. Aug. 19, '64; dcd. 

June 2S, '6.5. 
Name spelled Simpson on M-in roll. 
Wd. Fred'b'g; re-enlisted Vet.; killed 


Corporals. 
John T Rowlett 


in Wilderness. 


Wm E Lowther 






JohnC. Cooper 

Wm. Albright 


Disability Dec. 18, '62. . 
By transfer 

Exp. service 


Wd. and pr. N. M. X roads. 

Pr. N. M. X rds.; tr. to 190 Pa. (no reo. 


John Kelly 


in 190); surv. war. 
Ab. sick at M-o. Wd. May 12, '64. J 






Mathias Lauderback . 
.A.leY , Mf^Di 'laid 


Re-enlist Vet '.'. 


Wd. 2d B. Run. 

(Joined by re-enl. Aug. '61, M. R.) to 190; 


Headley Pannett 

Dan'l C. Odenbauer. . 

Musician. 
Charles Daiigherty 

Privates. 
Jesse K Allen 


Disability Apr. 18, '64. . 
Killed in action 

Deserted Dec. 11, '61.. 

By transfer 


dis. June 28, '65. 
Tr. fr. '• K " Co. 
Killed at Antittam. 

Tr. to 190 (no record in 190). 


James Allison 


Killed in action 

Re-enlist Vet...!.!!... 

Disability date nnk 

Exp. service 


Killed at Antietam. 


Leander Arndt 

George W. Barnitts. . . 

Ebenizer Beech 

Joseph Blair 

Robert C. Bridges 

Thomas Brady 


Killed at Antietam; from "K." 

Tr. fr. " K " ; to " B " 190; pr. Aug, 19, 

'64; dcd. June 5, '65. 
Wd. Antietam. 
Ab. sick at il-o. 


Deserted date unk. . . . 
Exp. service 




Benj. F. Brown 


Re-enlist Vet 

By transfer 


To 190 (no red. in 190); tr.fr. "K"; surv.w 
To 190 (no record in 190;. 


Richard A. Carr 

Anderson Callahan.... 
Benj. F. Cochran 

Peter Collins 


Killed in action 

Disability Jan. 9, '63 . . 
Re-enlist Vet 

Deserved date ank. . . 
Disability Jan. 16, '63. . 


KUled at N. M. X roads. 

To 190 (no red. in 190); died Dec. 12, '64, 
at Saulsbury. 


Samupl L. ("ooper 

James C. Cunningham 

James J. Cunningham 
John Curren 


Wd. N. M. X roads. 

Pr. Aug. 28, '62; to " B " 190; pr. May 8, 


Disability Dec. 20, '62. . 

Exp. service 

Deserted Mar. 5, '64.... 
Disability Dec. 16, '61.. 
nesertedMar. 5, '63... 
Disability Sept. 15, '62. 
Disability Aug. 2, '62. . 
By transfer 


'64, to Aug. 2-4, '64; dcd. June 24, '65. 
Dtd. to Vet. R. Corps; ab. at M-o. 


Wm. H. Davison 

John Dallaway 

Wm. Doan 




Henry Buddy 

Robert Duddy 


Wd. N. M. X roads. 




To 190 (no record in 190V 


Joseph Elllngsworth . . 
Andrew Elliott 


Re-enlist Vet 

Disability Dec. 24, '62. . 
Disability Mar. 28, '6.3. . 

Re-enlist Vet 

Disability Jan. 6, '63. . . 


Pr. May 8, '62; to " B " 190 (no red In 190); 
died at Saulsbury, Feb. 15, '65. 


Georee W. F. Fleming 
Joseph S. Fry 


Fr. " K " ; to 190 (no record in i90). 
Wd. South Mountain. 



i 



NoTB. — Many men were transferred from "K"' Company of 
veterans were transferred to 190 Penn. Vols.— M. D. H. 



12th to other companies of 12th. All 



MUSTER-OUT ROLL OF "A" COMFA-^Y— Continued. 



NAME AND RANK. 



Muster-in. 



Rank. 



Privates. 

Wm. A. Fry 'Corporal 

MichaelJ. Gillan Private.. 

John E. Goshart ! " 

George P. Gumpper, 

Henry Hacking 

NoelJ. Hail 



James Hardy 

Charles G. Hankins. 
George A. Hanky... 
Frank II. Hench.... 
Nicholas J. Hench. . 

John Hoover 

Peter Ilaney 

Alfred ilyneman 

Joseph Jeffrie^ 

Thomas Junes 

Daniel C. Kane 

Edward Lamb 

Stanley Lane 



Henry Lavyrence 

Wm. A. Leach 

Daniel McCarty 

John M.'AIaguire 

Henry McMauomy 

Samuel McKargue 

Joseph A. Malmesoury 

Ellis Mackey 

Robert E. Marshall.. .. 

Wm. A. Mead 

Stephen Mellott 



Corporal. 
Private 



Recruit. 
Private.. 



Date. 



Aug. 10, 'Gl 



DISCHARGED. 
How and When. 



Died Nov. 2, '63., 
Exp. service 



ivilled in action . 



Deserted date unk . . . 

Ke-enlist Vet 

li.Kp. service 

Killed in action 

Exp. service 

Disability Sept. 15, '62 

Ke-enlist Vet 

Exp. service 



REMARKS. 



.\ug, 16, '6] . 
Aug. 10, 'bl. 



Deserted June 8, '62. . 

Killed in aciion 

Died Sept. 8, '61 

Ke-enlist Vet 



Richard A. Miles 

John A. .Miller 

George S. Moore 

George W. Montony. 



George M. Morris. . . 

Jacob E. Moyer 

La Fayette Palmer. . 



Wilson R. Pelkington. 

Daniel Price 

Wm. Quinu 

John M. Koss 

Wm. H. Rowlett 

John Ryan 

George W. Sharp 

John Short 

Francis A. Smith 

James Smith 

Patrick ytai r 

Edward Strohman.. 

Joshua S weeger 

August Swenson 

Robert Trayford 

Ezra Toomey 

James Turnbull 

Charles Valiant... . 

John Wallace 

Wm. Walker 

Joseph Watson 

Thomas R. Williams 

David Williams 

John Weber 

Thomas Wilson 

James E. White 

Thomas White 

Peter Woods 

Washington Yates.. 

Benj. Yarnall 

Wm. P. Zeigler 



Recruit. . 



Private... 
Recruit.. 



Sergeant. 
Private... 



r?ecruit., 
Private... 



Recruit. 



Mar. 14, '62. 

Aug. 10, '61. 
Mar. 10, m. 
Mar. 14, '62. 

Aug. 10, '61. 



Oct. 6, '63. . 
Aug. 10, '61. 



July 27, '63. 



Killed in action 

Exp. service 

Promoted Nov. 28, '61 

Exp. service 

Disability Aug. 2, '62.. 
Deserted Aug. 10, '61. 

Exp. service 

Disability Jan. 26, '63 . 
Deserted Mar. 5, '63. . . 
Re-enlist Vet 



Deserted Aug. 10, 'f.2. . 
" June 1, '63., 
Disability Feb. 26, '63. . 
Killed in action 



Private.. . Aug. 10, '61 



Recruit.. 
Private.. 
Recruit.. 
Private.. 



Jan. 1, 'Gl , 
Aug. 10, 'GI, 
July 27, 'G3. 
Aug. 10, '61. 



Deserted Aug. 10, '62. . 

By traijsie- 

To Vet. Res. Corps 

Killed in action. . . .. 

Ke-eniisc Vet 

Disability Dec. 80, '62.. 

Re-enlist Vet 

Disability Jan. 20, '62. . 

By transfer 

Re-enlist Vet 

Killed in action 

Disability May 30, '62. . 
Deserted Aug. 10, '61 
Disability Jan. 16, '63 
Deserted Dec. 7, '63. 

Ke-enlist Vet 

By transfer 

Died Aug. 20. '62 

Exp. service 



Disability date unk. . 

Exp. service 

Re-euiist Vet 



Exp. .service 

By tra'isfer 

Re-enlist Vet 

Hy transfer 

Disability Dec. 11, '62. 
Exp. ^'ervice 



From "K." 

A d. Wilderness May 5, '64. 
Pr. Fred'b'g; ab. sick at M-o. 
Tr. to Ver. H. C'orps. date unknown. 
Missing N. M. X roads. 
Wd. 2d B. Run; tr. fr. 'K"; re-enl. Vet.; 
killed in Wilderness. 

To 190; disc'd at end of war. 

Killed at Gettysburg; tr. fr. "K" Co. 
Tr. from " K." 

To 190 (no rec. in 190); disc'd end of war 
Wd. North Anna May 23, '64. 



Re-enlist Vet.; killed in Wilderness. 

Wd. & pr. N. M. X roads; to 190 (noreo. 

in 190); surv. war. 
To 190(iioiec.inl90);dis.atend of war. 
Killed at Fredericksburg. 
Pr. Catleti 's St'n date unk & in Wild'n's 
Unknown how promoted. 



Wd. Fredericksburg. 

Wd. N. M. X roads; tr. from "K." 

Fr. "K"; wd. N. M. X roads; to "B" 190: 
disc'd July 15, '65. 

Fr. "K." 

Killed at N. M. X roads; formerly a 
Lieut, in this Co. 

To 190 (no record in 190). 

Wd. & pr. N. M. X rouds; tr. to Vet. 

Res. Lorps Sept. 1, '63. 
Killed at S. Mountain; tr. fr. "K" Co. 
To 190; diedpr. atSaulsbury. 
Wd. Antietam. 
Fr. "K"; to 190 (no rec. in 190); surv. war. 

To 190 (no rec. in 190); d 'c'd at end of war 
To 190 (no record in 190). 
Wd. June 27, '62; killeu at 2d B. Run. 
Pr. May 8," 62. 



Fr. "K"; to 190 (no record in 190). 

To 190 (no record in 190). 

At Philadelphia. 

Fr. "K"; ab. sick at M-o, 



Ab. at M-o. 

To 190 (no record in 190); surv. war 

To 190 (no rec. in 190); disc'd at end war 

P. i^urg.-mate Aug. 31. 61, to Oc. 1, '61. 

To 190 ^no record in 190). 

To 190 (no record in 190); surv. war. 

Pr. N. M. X roads. 
Pr. June 27, '62. 



By transfer Detached to Navy Feb. 18, '62. 

JExp. service! .' '.'.'.'.'.'.'. Tr. fr. " K " Co. 



MUSTER-OUT ROLL OF ''B" COMPANY, 



NAME AND RA:M. 



Captains. 

Davi \ N. Matthews'^'i] 
Siiuoa H. BrigKS 



Is*. Lieutenants. 

Jawes B. Harding 
John F. Uoadley .... 

2d Lieutenants. 

Arthur M. Phillip.'^. . . . 
rbiletus U. Reynolds 

1st Sergeants. 

Andrew F. Ely 

Martin N. Reynolds.. 

Sergeants. 

Porter Squiers 

Mason Parker 

Henry W. Dean 

George Moore 

Oscar H Benjamin .... 
Samuel A. Danuer — 

Charles John^son 

Charles A. Meeker . . 

Corjwrals. 

Merrlt S. Harding.... 
Alexander Morgan — 

Jacob May nan 1 

Levi B. Knowles 

George Fitzger 

James C. K ■eney. 
Aaron H. Wintermute 

Milton Moyer 

Jeremiah C. Peynolds 
John Shiugler 

Musicians. 

Frederick Waugh 

Christian C. Kekart. . . 
John C. Eckart .. 



Rank. 



Lewis C. Miller 

Privoites. 
William Andrews — 

Christian L. Arnold.. 

Samuel Arnold 

Silas Aumick 

Leander V. Armstrong 

James Bailey 

John Banno 



Warren Barber. 



Alonzo H. Beebe 

Chancey C. Beuinger. 

Robert Blakeslee 

Charles L. Card 

Asher Cook 



Captain. . 
Sergeant 



'•^t Lieut. 
Sergeant, 



Jd lieut. 
Corporal. 



1st Sergt. 
L'orporal. 



Sergeant. 
Corporal. 



Recruit. 
Private . 



Corporal. 



Private . 



Musician 
Private . . 
Musician 



Private . 



Recruit . 
Private . 



Unk. ... 
Recruit . 



Date. 



Aug. 10, '61. 



Harvey Corby 

Absalom Crawford . . . 

William Croop 

John H Davis 

Thomas Davis 

Joseph Delliiiger 

John Dressier 

Elihu Dvmond 

Isaiah Evans 

James B. Fisk 

Squires B. Fi.sk 

Sydney Freeman — 
Lvmaa J. Freeman.. 

William Fox 

Patrick Gannon 

Edwin J. Gardner 

James Gillespie 



Dec. 
Aug. 



1862 
10,'61 



DISCHARGED. 
How and When. 



REMARKS. 



Tuly 31. '62.. 
^xp. service. 



Boari ex.. Mar. 4, '62. 
Sxp service 



Resigned July 21, '62 
Exp. service 



Disability Feb. 21, '6-2. 
Sxp. service 



Disability Jan. 1. '62 
D^c. 30, '61 
Killed in action , 



Exp service. 



Died May 6. 'o3.. 

By transfer 

Died Oct. 30, '62. 



Disability Feb 27, '63 

Died Dec. 3, '61 

Killed in action 

By transfer 

Disability Jan. 28, '63, 

Died July 22, '6i 

Exp. service 



Deserted Aug. 10, '61. 
Exp. service 



Private 



Recruit. 
Private . 



Recruit 



Nov. 13. '61 
Mar. 3, '64 

Aug. 10,'61 



Unknown. . 

Nov. 7, '61. 
Mar. 17, '64. 

Aug. 10, '61 



Mar. 31, '64. 
Nov. 21. '61. 
Aug. 10, '61 . 



Nov. 21, '61 
Feb. 7, '62. 



Re-enlist Vet. 



Exp. service 

Disability May 20, '62 
" Deo. 15 '62 

Sxp. service 

Di-dDec. 1, '62 

By transfer 



Re-enlist Vet. 



TIow disr'ha'-ged unknown. 

I^ l>t Sm. Jan. 1. '02: 1-t Lt. Mar. 1<» '62; 
Com'd Capt. Julv31, '62; Capt. April 
21, '03; Brevet Major, Mar. 13, '62; 
wounded Fredericiisbu-g. 

P. com'd 1st Lt. July 31, '62; 1st Lt. 
April 20, '63; wounded Antietam. 

P. onm'd. 2d Lt. July 31, '62; 2d L». April 
10, '63. 



?. 1st Sgt.; pr. Mechanicsville. 



P. Sgt.; eom'y Sgt. Mar. 21. '62; ret'd to 
Co. June, '62; killed South Mountain. 
P. Sergeant. 

Pr. Gaines Mill; died at Wash'g'n, D.C. 
To 190 (no record in 190) . 
Wd. Antietam. 



Wd. 2d B. Run; disc'd for wds. 

Killed at Antietam. 

To Battery "A" 43 Penn. April 6, '62. 
Wd. &pr. Fred'b'g; discharged for wds 
Died at Harrison's Ldg. 



P. Musician. 

Tr. fr. " K " Co. to Staff as Prin. Mus. 

July 31, '63. 
P. Drum-Major Nov. 22, '61; ret'd. to 

Co. Mar. 22, 62; wd. Fredericksburg 

To "H " 190; pr.; died at Saulsb'y, Jan 
30, '65. 



Disability Dec. 15, '62. 

Rxp. service 

Disability date uak.. 
By transfer 



fCxp. service 

Died of wounds 

Disability March 6, '63. 
Exp. ser\-ice 



Killed inaction 

Disability Apil 21, '6 i. 
Disability Jan. 1, '63 

By t'--inster 

Disability May 24, '62. 
Exp. service 



By transfer 

Disability Feb. 2, '62. 

Died Aprils, '62 

By transfer 



Wd. South Mountain; disc'd. for wds. 
Tr. fr. "K "Co.; wd. 2d B. Run. 
Died at Acquia Creek. 
To 190 (no record in 190); died at Sauls 

burv Jan. 6 '65. 
To'H" 190; pr. Aug. 19. '64; disc'd. 

June 28, '65. 

Tr. to Vet. Res. Co.; ab. M-o. 

To 2d U. S. Cav'y May 31, '64. 
To 190 (qo record in 190); disc'd. Mar. 
30, '65. 

Pr. Gaines Mill and Fredericksburg. 
Wd. Antietam and Fredericksburg. 
Wounded Fredericksburg. 



Died of wds ; pr. and wd. N. M. X r'ds 
To 190 (no rec. in 190); disc"d June 2^, '65 

To 5th U. S. Arty. Nov. 24, '62. 

Died at Philadelphia. 

To " H " 190; pr. d'd at Sauls. Dec. 18, '6^ 



I 



]\IUSTER-OUT ROLL OF " B " COMPANY.-Con^m? 



NAME AND RANK. 



Muster-in. 



Privates. 
James C. Hastings. . . 

John Hastings 

William Hastings 

Charles T. Harvey... 

James Hedden 

James N. Herbert... 

Joseph Hess 

Fredericlc Hiiililey... 

Oran Hinkley 

Jasper Hoadley 

Albert Hot) sell 

Edward House 

Fuller A. Johnson 

James Jones 

John H. Jacquis. . . . 

George Labarr 

Francis J. Lathrop... 

Wm. Langiey 

Francis J. I.eppn 

James C. Linthurst.. 
TheoH. Lackey 



DavtdF. Lurch... 

Tbomas May 

John McCord 

Reuben McSherer. 

Calvin Moore 

Marti i Morgan... 

Jacob M'.yer 

John Moyer 

Miner Moyer 



Rank. 



John n. MuKison. . 



Harrison Noel 

Thomas O^terhaut. 

Mason Parker 

Warren Parrish 

Harrison Pdtrick . . 



Marvin Potter 

FredfTick K. Puckner 

Worden Reynolds 

Alexander Rogan 

Rensel la^ r Ross 

Patrick Rowan 

Wm. H. Sanders ... 

Sidney Schooley 

James Schaeffer 

Jacob R. tvhotwell .. 

Daniel Shumber 

C^rus Smeed 

John Sly 

John H. Snyder 

Floyd T. Sprague 

Joseph B. Sprague. . . . 

Norman Sprague 

Wm. Stager 

Wm. E. btark 

Wm. Stonier 

Wm. Story 

TruxtonT. Stansbury 
Perrer L. Taylor, 

James Taylor 

Charles Terry 

Harvey Tiffany 

Charles A. Thompson 
George K. Thompson. 

Wm. Thomp.-on 

Mori is Toomy 

Edward Vanamaker. . 
George W. Wagoner. 
Sanford Wandall 



Private.. 

Recruit. 

Q.M. Sgt 
Private... 
Recruit 
Private . 



Recruit. 
Private 



Recruit. 
Private. 



Recruit. 
Private. 



Recruit. 
Private.. 



Date. 



Aug. 10, '61. 

Aug. 2, '62 

Aug. 10, '61. 

Aug. 10, 'R2 
.A.ug. 10, '61. 



Nov. 1.3, -61. 
.Mar. 19. '64. 
Aug. 10, '61. 



Mar. 29, '64. 
Aug. 10, '61. 



DISCHARGED. 
How and When. 



Re-enlist. Vet. 
By transfer 



Disability Feb. 4, '62 

Killed in action 

Bv t-ansfer 

Killed in action 

Disability Oct. 15, '63 

^xp. service 

l)i-abilitv Cct 11, '62 
Esp. service 



By transfer. 



REMARKS. 



Mar. 19, '64 
Aug. 10,'61. 



Dl.sability Feb. 23, '63. 
Disability May 2!, '62. 

Ekp. set vice 

Disability Sept. 20, '61 ! 
Disabirity Ap il 9, '63 
By transfer 



Re-enlist Vet 

Deserted J -n. 15, '62 

Exp. service . 

By transfer 

Exp. service 



Killed in acti n. 

By transfer 

Re-enlist Vet 



Deserti d -July 2, '62. 
i i-.xp. service. 



Wd. N. M. X roads: to "H" 190; killed 

at Petersburg June 17, '(4. 
To 190; discharged June 27. "65. 
To 190: discharged June 2, 65 
Q'm Sgt. til Dec. '61. 
Killed at New Market Cross Roads. 
To 190; discharged June 2, "tiS. 
Killed at Spottsylvania, May 8, '64. 



To Vet. Res. Corps, Feb. 19, '64. 

To 190; died at Phila. Sep^ 12,'64,ofwda, 

Wounded Mechanicsville. 

Wd. Antiftam; d. of wds ; tr. fr-'^K.** 
To 190 (no rec. in 190); died at ..rlington 

Feb 2, '6.5. ^ 

To 190; never reported; tr. fr. " K " Co. 

Tr. to Vet. Rps. Corps. 

To 6 IT. S. Cav'yNov. 2. '02 

Wounded New Market Cross Roads. 

Killed at Frederic'asburg. 

To 190; discharged June 28, "65 

To-H'' 190; pr. from Au- 19. '64, to 

Mar. 2, '65; discharged Jii"e 28, '65 
To ' H " 190; pr. June 13, '64; disc'd Juiio 

26, 65. 



Conrad Weismiller. . . 

Almuda Wilbur 

James Wilson *. . 

Thomas C. Woods... 
Orland Wright 



Recruit . 

Unk 

Wagoner 
Private 



Recruit 
Private.. 



Recruit.. 



Private. 



Recruit. 



Private . 
Recruit.. 
Private... 



Mar. 25, '64.' 3y transfer To 190 ; disr-harged Mar 15 '65 

Aug. 10, '61 . Died Ftb. 10, '6J Died i^t Geo- getown, D: C 



Nov. 7, '61 . 
Unknown., 
-^ug. 10, '61. 



Mar. 31, '64 
Aug. 10,'61 



Mar. 10. '64 
Mar. 18. 'Ci. 
Nov. 21, '61 
Aug. 10, '61. 



Mar. 2. '64. 
Mar. 31, '64 
Nov. 21, '61 
Aug. 10, 'CI. 
Mar. 18, '64 
Aug 10, '61 



Missing in action 

Died of wounds 

Deserted Sept. 28, '62 

'•xp. service 

Disability Nov. 24, '62. 

Exp. service 

Deserted May 12. '63. . 

Disability July 18, '62. 

" Jan. 15, '62. 

By transfer 

Exp. service 



Re-enlist Vet. 
By transfer... 



Died of wounds 

Exp. service 

Died Nov. 18, '61 

" Nov. 21, '61. 
By transfer 

Disability Oct. 27. '62 
Ue.-eitea Juiy 2, '63... 

'<y transfer 

Died Nov. 3, '61 

Disability Sept. 24, '62 
N v. 22, '6J 

Re-enlist Vet 

De.seited Aug. 10, '61 

By transfer 

Prisoner at M-o 



Pr. N. M X roads. Fred'bg and SpotU 
sylvania May 9, '64. "v^t** 

Wd. New Market Cross Roads. 

Wounded South Mountain. 



To 190; discharged June 28, *65. 



To "H " 190; pr. Aag. 19, '64; tr.fr, "K.» 
To 190; disc'd June 28. '65. 

To " H " 190; disc'd June 28, '65. 
Wounded Mechanicsville. 

Died at Camp Pierpont. 

To 190; pr.. died at Saulsb'y Vec. 13, '64, 
" aisoharged for disa. March 9, '6{^ 



Died of wounds 

I"xp. serv ce 

Re-enlist Vet 

j Exp. service 

Lisability Feb. 9, "03. 



To 190; discharged June 28, '65. 
Died at Camp Pierpont. 

Wounded Mechanicsville. 

To " H"190; d'd at Saulsb'y Dec. 12, '6i. 

To 5 U. S. Art'y. Nov. 24, '62. 

Pr. 2d B. Run; pr. April 8 to May, '64; 

discharged June 11, '6». 
Tr. fr. "K"Co ; wounded Fred'b'g. 
Detatched to artiller . 
To 190, never reported; tr. fr. " K " Co. 

Pr. Fred'bg: discharged for wounds.-, 

IV 



MUSTER-OUT ROLL OF "C" COMPANY. 



NA^lE AND RANK. 



Ca2Jtains. 

Richard Gustin 

Heury S. Lucas 

1st Lieutenant. 

Daniel II. Jewell .. 

2d Lieutenants. 

Jacob J. Orautier. . 
Johu G. Ruliu 



Muster-in. 



1st Sergeants. 

Wm. Russell 

Wilde E. Kiug 

Sergeants. 

Frank Fish 

Wm. Daggett 

Lvman Douglas. ., 
Ellis A. Foster.... 



Joshua H. Graves 

Corporals. 

Henry M. Richardson. 

Edwin D. Benedict 

Wm. A. Corzatt 

Samuel Bryan 



John H. Snow 

George H. Mason. 
David Walter 



Daniel J. Mason... 

John F. Gerald 

George M. Pardoe. 
Miller W. Barnes... 

Musicians. 

Cyrus J. Spencer . . 
Robert E. Jacobs. . . 
John H. Harris 

Privates. 

Frank Adams 



Joseph Bailey 

James Barnes 

Lemuel Barnes 

Wm. H. Benizel 

Henry H. Bennett. 

Duncan Black 

Jerome Blauce . 

George S. Borden.. 

John Bossinger 

Lewis BcjughtoH. . . . 
James Burke . 

Thomas Bush 

David Bryan 

John T. c;aless — 
Wm. Carnochan... 
Cyrus D. Chapman. 



Miles M. Cooper 

George D. Comfort 

Michael C inningham 

Calvin L. Davis 

Charles Davis 

George Davis 

Lewis Davis 



Rank. 



Captain . . 
1st Ueut. 



Corporal. 



Sergeant. 
Pi-ivat 



1st Serg.. 
Sergeant. 



rporal, 



Private. 



Corporal. 



Musician 
Private... 
Musician 



Private. 



Recruit . 
Private . 



Date. 



DISCHARGED. 
How and When. 



Aug. 10, '61 By Promotion 



REMARKS. 



Resigned Aug. 11, '62. 
Fxp. service 



Disability Apr. 16, '63 
Feb. 21, 'o2. 
Exp. service 



Disability Mar. 24, '64 



BySec.War, May 23, '6; 
Exp. service 



Disability Nov. 13, '62 
Re-enlist Vet 



Killed in action 

Disability Jan. 6, '6i. 

Exp. service 

Disability Oct. 26, '61 



P.Lt.-Col. Apr.6, 63. See Field and Staff. 

P. Capt. April 6. '63; Bvt. Maj. for An- 
tietam; pr. H. M. X rds.; wd. Antie- 
tam and Fredericksburg, and May, '64. 

P. Sgt.; fir-t Sit. Aug. 30. '62; 1st Lt. 
May 14, 63; pr. FredericksDurg. 

P. 2dLt. Sept. 10, 1861. 
P. 2d Lt. May 1, '63; Bvt. 1st Lt. sp. gal. 
Mine Run; tr. from "K" Co. 

Tr to Vet. R. C. Nov. 1.5, 1863. 
?. IstSgt.; wd. Spottsylvania. 



vVd. 2d Bull Run. 

P. Sgt.; wl. Fredericksburg. 

P. Sgt ; wd. N. M. X rds., Antietam and 

Fredericksburtr. 
P. Sgt.; wd. and pr. Fredericksburg. 



Pr. Mays, 1862. 

Pr. Mechaniosville. 

vVd. Antietam. 

P. Corp'l; wd. N. M. X rds. and Antie- 
tam; pr. tYedericksou-tr. 

P. Corp'l; wd. 6. M. & F'b'g; fr. "K" Co. 

P. Corp'l; wd. S. Mt'n. 

P. Corp'l. wd. Fredericksburg; tr. to 
190; died pr at Petersburg. 

P. Corp'l; killed at Fredericksburg. 

P. Corp'l; wd. Antietam. 

P. Corp'l; pr. Fredericksburg. 



Recruit . 
Private. 



Wm. Divis 

Timothy Fellon... 
Edgar F. Funton.. 
Horace Fenton... 
Elbridge Fenton.. 

Newtim Ford 

John W . Garrison . 

Samuel C. Griffin. 

Abe Grover 

John Haines 



Wm. Hardy... 
Joseph llagar 



Recruit.. 
Private.. 



Sergeant 
Private.. 



Mar. 18, 
Aug. 10, 



.Inly 10, 
Aug. 10, 



Oct. 23, 
Aug. 10, 



Killed in action Killed Antietam. 

Exp. service Wd.; time and place unk; fr. "K" Co. 

Wd. Wilderness. 



By transfer , 

Killed in action 

Disability Feb. 4, '63. 

Exp. service 

Ivilled inaction 

Exp. service , 

Killed in action 

Exp. service. .. 



Disability Oct. 29, '62. 
BySec.War, June 9, '62. 
Disability Feb. 17 '63. 
Exp. s-rvice 



D. of wds., Jan. 20, '63 
iy transfer 



Killed in action 

Exp. service 

Detached 

By transfer 

Disability Jan. 4, '62. 

By transfer 

lle-eulisD Vet 



Died Oct. ?5, 1882.... 
Disability Jan. 15, '63 
PrLsouer at M-o. .. . 

Exp . soi'vioe 

By transfer 

Killed in action 

Exp. service 



Deserted May 4, '63.. . 
Disability Jan. 2, '64. 
Exp. service 



Deserted Aug. 29, "62 



Wd. N. M. X rds.; tr. to V. R. C; ab at 

M-o. 
To 2d U . S Art. July 18, 1862 
Killed at Antietam. 
Wd. South Mountain. 
Tr. f r. " K " Co. ; wd. Ant'm and F'b'g. 
Killed at Fredericksburg 
Wd. Gaines Mill; ab. at >i-o. 
Wd. and pr. N. M. X rds.; k. Antietam. 

Wd. Bethesda Ch.; tr. from " K " Co. 

Wd. Mechanicsville. 

Pr. Mav8, 186'. 

Wd Antietam. 

Wd Mechanicsville June 27, 1862. 

Wd. Fredericksburg. 

Wd. Fredericksburg 

To Battery "A" 4.3d Pa. July 20, 1862; 

wd. N M. X rds. 
Gaines Mill 
Wd Fredericksbui'g 
Det'd J'ruv. M. Off. 3d Div, 5t,h C. 
Tr. to 6th U. S. Cav. Nov. 10. 16 .2. 

To 2d U. S Art. July 18. 186'. 

Wd. N.M.X rds. and F'b'g; tr. to 190; pr. 

Peter.sbiirg; discharged end of war. 
At Washington D. C. 
Wd. South ivlountain. 
Wd. Antirtfam; released Sept. 19, '04 (?). 
Wd Antietam and F'b'g; ab. sick at M-o 
Pr. F'b'g; tr. to V. R. C. Sept 1, 1863. 
Killed G'aines Mill . • 
Wd. Mec!iaui?Bvile June Z~. 1862, S. 

Mt'n; wd. and pr. Fredericksburg. 
Tr from "K " Co.; wd. Fred'l)urg. 
Wd. Mechanicsville and Fred'burg. 
Tr. from "K "Co.; wd. Groveton April 

29, 1862, and Fredericksburg. 
Ab. sick at M-o. 



MUSTER-OUT ROLL OF "C" COMPA^NY— Continued. 



NAME AND RANK. 


Muster-in. 


DISCH.\RGED. 
How and When. 


Rank . 


Date. 


Privates. 

Jacob Hockersmith . . 
Isaac Holly 


Private . 

Recruit.. 
Private . . 

Recruit . . 
Private.. 

Recruit . . 
Private. 

Recruit.. 
Private.. 

Wagoner 
Private... 
Sergeant 
Private. . 


Aug. 10, '61 

Jan. 30, '62 
Aug. 10, '61 

Feb., '62 . 
.\ug. 10, '61 

Dec. 21, '63 
-Vug. 10, '61 

Mar. 25, '64 
Aug. 10, '61 


By G. C. M 

Exp. service. 

Disability Jan. 17, '63. . 
Deserted Sept 12, "62 
By transfer 


Austin Horton 

Franklin S. Howard . . 
Peter B. Humel 


Joseph W. Inscho 

Wm. E. Jones 


Killed in action 

Ue-enlist Vet 


Lester 0. Kent 

Henry M . Knox 

Wm.Kuh 


Exp . service 

Killed in action 

Exp. service 


Augusta Laud 

Volney M. Levally 


Deserted June 30, '62. 
Re-enlist Vet 


James Loan 


By transfer 


George Matson 


Re-enlist Vet 


Wm. McDougall 


Exp. service 


Frank Mclntyre 


Re-enlist Vet 


Frederick Mellott 

Henry J. Mentzel 

Wash'ton Musselman. 


Died of wounds 

Deserted Sept. 25, '62 . 
DisabilitvMay 18, '63 . 
Disability Oct. 16, '62. 
By transfer 


Edward F. Newell 


Anthony Novitcky... 

John S. f'sler 

John Ogara 

EbinR. Packard 


Killed in action 

Disability Mar. 18, '62. 

Died of wounds 

by transfer 


John Pa tton 

James Peters 


Exp. service 

By transfer 

Disability Mar. 18. '62.. 
Disability Aug. 16, '62. 
Deserted July 12, '6-!.. 
Exp. s-^rvice 


Phillip Petty 


Peter W. Poland 

Isaac Read jay 

Wm. A. Rice 


Nelson H. Robbins 


Thos. T. Shillem 

David Short 

Edmund W. Snell 

Eugene Smith 


Exp. service 

Deserted Dec. 1, '62... 
Exp. service .... ... 


Frederick M. Smith. . , 
Daniel Stewart 


Died Nov. 25, 3861 


James Sturdivant 




John B. Vanard 

Herman A. Vaughan . . 


Killed in action 

ile-enlist Vet 


Richard J. Watts 




Abner Williams 

Oscar Williams 

Seely Williams 

Aaron Wilson 


Killed in action 

Disability July 17.' '62! 

June 28, '63. 

Exp. service 


Henry D. Witmer 

Charles K. Wright... 
Richard Woods 


Frisby T. Wiant 









REMARKS. 



Tr. from '-K" Co. 

Wd. 21 Bull Run; pr. Fredericksburg. 

Wd. N. M. X roads. 

To Battery " A " 4.3d Pa., July 20. 1863; 

wd. Fredericksburg. 
Killed at N. M. X roads. 
Wd. Fre'lericksburg; to"E" 190; pr. 

Petersburg; died en route home. 

Wd. N. M. X roads.; killed Fred'hnrg. 
Tr. fr. "K " Co ; pr. Fredericksbui^. 
Wd. N. M. X roads. 
^M. Groveton; to "E" 190; pr. Aug. 

19, '64, dNeharged J-^ne 2. '65. 
Tr. fr. •K" Co.; P Q'm-ijergeant 

May 1, 1863; (see staff). 
Wd. Antietam; to '• E ' 190; discharged 

end of war. 
Tr.fr. "K"Co.; wd. Malvern Hill. 
Wd. S. M 'fn; to 190; dis'd end of var. 
Wd. S. M'tn; died Oct. 1, '62; t.. fr. 

"K"Co. 

Pr. May 8, '62; pr Fredericksburg. 
Tr. fr. "K "Co.; wd. 2d Bull Run. 
I'o 190; discharged 1865. 
Killed Fredericksburg. 

Wd. Fred'hurg; died Jan. 4, '63. 

Wii. Fredburir; tr. to Battery " A " 43d 

Pa. July 20, '63. 
Wd. Mech'ville; pr. Fredericksburg. 
To 190; pr. '64; dis'il end 01 war. 
Wd. South Mountain. 
Wd. Gaines Mill. 
Pr. Fredericksburg. 

Wd . & pr. N.M.X rds; to 190; dis. end war 
Pr. Fredericksburg. 

. -'Wd. South Mountain. 

At Washington D. C 

To 190; k. at Petersburg, June 17, '64 

Wd. 2d Bull Run. 

Tr. fr. "K " Co.; killed Fred'burg. 

Wd. Fred'burg; to 190; dis. end of war. 

Wd. N. M. X ids. and pr. Fred'burg; to 

190; surv. war. 
Killed N. M. X roads. 
Killed N. M. X roads. 



Tr. fr. "K "C■^.; tr. to V. R. C. 

Pr. Fredericksburg 

Wd. N. M. X rds.; tr. fr. "K"Co.: tr. 

to Vet. R C. 
Wd. Fredericksburg; ab. at M-o. 



MUSTER-OUT ROLL OF ^' D " COMPANY. 



NAME AND RANK. 


Muster-in. 


DISCHARGED. 
How and When. 


REMARKS. 




Rank. 


Date. 


Captains. 
Samuel Wilt 


Captain. . 
Jd Lieut. 

Sergeant 

1st Lieut, 
1st Sergt. 

Sergeant. 

Corporal. 

Sergeant. 
Private . . 

Corporal 
Private... 


Aug. 10, '61. 

Unknown.. 
Aug. 10, '61. 

Unknown . 
Aug. 10, '61. 

Unknown. 
Feb. 14, '64. 
Aug. 10, '61. 

April, '64. 


Disability Nov. 5, '61 . 
Exp. service 




Wm. H. Weaver 


P. 1st Lt. Nov. 15, '61; Capt. May 1, '63; 

wd. 2d Bull Run. 
P. Capt Jan. 13, '62; wd. and pr. N. M. 

X roads. 


Thomas D. Horn 

1st Lieutenants. 
Henry Mather 


Disability Feb. 10, '6.3.. 

Nov. 5, '61; cause unk. 
Exp, service 


Edward B. Snyder 

2d Lieutenant. 

Wm. R. Peacv)ck 

1st Sergeant. 


P. 2d Lt. Nov. 5, '61; 1st Lt. May 1, '63; 
Bvt. Capt. for Gettysburg; wa. F'b'g. 

P. Cora'd 2d Lt. Feb. 10, '63; (not must'd); 

2d Lt. aud 1st L'.. "E" 190; dis'd June 

28, '65. 
''. 1st Sgt ■ 1st Sgt "E" 190' rd Lt "E" 


Re-enlist Vet 


Sergeants. 
Wm H Woodall 


3v transfer 


190 isei t. 19, '64; i r. Aug. 19, '64; dis'd 
June 5, '65. 
Vr. to Signal Corps Aug. 29, '01. 




E.xp. service 

Re-enlist Vet 




P. Corp'J, !-gt.; wd. 2d Bull Run and 
F'b'g; to "E" 190; died in pr. Feb. 20, '65 


Cor2:>orals. 


Exp. service 


Benj. Biightbill 

Aaron T-. Burke 

Henry Krafft 

James T. WordalL 

Henry H. Hoppel 






Killed in action 

By transfer 

Killed in action 

Exp. service 


Killed 2d Bull Run. 
P. Com'y Sgt; (see staff). 
P. Q'm-Sgt Regimental Q'm;(-ee staff). 
Killed South Mountain. 
Wd. FredericksbUig. 
P. Corporal. 

P. Corporal; wd. andpr Fredericksb'g. 
P. Corp'l; wd & pr. N. M. Xrds.; to "E" 
191; wd. &pr. July8,'64;d'dendofwar 
P. Corp'l; dr. in Pamunkey River. 
P. Corporal. 


John Good 


Disability Nov. 5, '63. . 

Exp. service 

Re-enlist Vet 


John A. Walker 


James M. Allen 

Richard Fleming 

Musicians. 


Drowned June 4, '64.. 
Disability Dec. 15, '62.. 

Exp. service 


John Irlam 

Wagoner. 
Wm. Hock . .... 


Wagoner 
Private... 

Unk.. .. 
Private... 

Unk 

Private.. 

Unk 

itecruit. . 
Private.. . 

Recruit . . 


Disability Jan. 27, '62 . 
Ssp. service 


P. Corporal. 


Privates. 






Wm. P Austin 


Deserted June 1, '63. . 
By G. C. M. Feb. 20, '64 
Disability Feb. 22, '62.. 

Killed in action 

Disability July 21, '63. 


Wd. and pr. Mechanlcsville. 
Wd. South Mountain. 


Wm. H. Barnes 

John Bates 




John Beat ty 


Wd. and pr. N. M. X roads. 


George F. Black 




Re-enlist Vet 

Deserted date unk 

Disability Nov 5.63.. 
Deserted Oct. 1, '62... 
Deserted date unk.. 


To " E " 190; died of wds. Sept. 11, '64. 

Wd. Fredicksb'g; tr. to Vet. V. Corps. 

Tr. to Vet. R. Corps. 

Wd and pr. F'd'g; to 190; d'd tad of war 


Lewis Boston 

Isaac Bumburgh 

Lemuel Burbaker 

John Bryan 


David Campbell 

David H. Carpenter. . 
John Clunghart, 




Re-enlist Vet 




Re-enlist Vet 


Wd. AntiPtam; to 190; pr. Aug. 19, '64; 
dis'd end of war. 


George Carter. . . . 


Disability date unk. . . 




To "E" 190; pr. '64; detached. 

" pr. Aug. 19,'64; d'd end war 
Wd and pr. F'd'g; to "E" .90; died in 
pr. Nov. 16, "64. 


John A De Wolf 


Re-enlist Vet 






John Donohue 


Exp. service 


Christian Frankhouser 


"^e-en^stVet 


To"H"190;pr.Aug.l9,'64;d'dJune21,'65 
Wd. 2dB. Run; died of wds. May 13, '64. 


Edward Fuller 

Wm. Fulton 


Dfserted June 1, '63... 
Died May 13, '64. . .. 
Deserted June 1, '63.. . 
Disability Dec. 15, '62. . 

Killed in action 

He-enlist Vet 

Disability Feb. 28, '62. . 
Disability Oct. 24, '62.. 

Killed in action 

Died of wds. May 11, '64 


George Fetterman. . . . 
Richard Fleming 


Killed Fredericksburg. 

To 190 (Adam Garnee of "H" 190, killed 




George Gorman 

Henry Gorman 


Aug. 13, '64). 

Dis'd by Order War Department. 
Tr. fr. "K" Co.; killed Fredericksb'g, 
Wd. Wilderness May 6, '64. 


John Gurtner 


1 



MUSTER-OUT ROLL OF "D" COMFA:<iY.— Continued. 



NAME AND RANK. 


Muster-in. 


DISCHAEGED. 
How and When. 


REMARKS. 




Rank. 


Date. 




Frtvates. 

George Gurtler 

Robert Hall 


Recruit.. 

Unk 

Private.. . 

Unk .... 
Private . . 

Unk 

Private... 

Recruit.. 
Private... 

Recruit.. 

Private... 
Recruit.. 
Private . . 


.\pril, '64.. 
Unknown. 
Aug. 10, '61. 

Unknown . 
Aug. 10, "61. 
Unknown.. 
Aug. 10, '61. 

Aug. 29, '61 
Aug. 10, "61 

Feb. 11, '64. 

Aug. 10, '61. 
Feb 29, '64. 
Aug. 10, '61. 


By transfer 

Deserted date unk 

Deserted July 10, '62.. 

Exp. service 

Deserted date unk 
Disability Sept. l."63.. 
Deserted date unk 
Disability July 18, '62. 
Re-enlist Vet 

^y transfer 

Exp. service ... 


To "E" 190; died in prison. 


Thomas Hdll 




John Holt 




Charles U=iines 

John E. Harnes 

James Helbert 

Peter H^-nseler 


Wd. 2d B. Run; pr. May 8, '64; to "K" 

190; Burv. war. 
To Signal Corps Aug. 29, '61. 
Detached. 


John Hudgeon 

Richard Hughes 










Died Dec. 10, '61 

Bv transfer 

Deserted Oct. 1, '62... 
Exp. service 


Died at Georgetown, D. C. 
To An,'y July 18, '63. 

Wd. and pr. Mechanicsvlle. 
Wd. N M X roads. 


Nicholas Krouse 

George Kugler . . 

Samucl Lessly 


Alex Leibv 




Henry G. Lewis 

Jo-eph W Long 

Edward Lyons 
Francis F. Mann 


By Sec. War Nov. 26, "ee 
Re-enlist Vet 


To 190; died at Goldsboro, N. C. (?). 


John Mahrters 


Exp. service. ... 




Harri-on McTabe 

Thomas >U-Cord 

Hugh Mc'Joy 

Samuel McDaniels 


Rest'd fr. deser 

Died of wounds 

Killed in action 

By transfer 


Tr. to 190; deser. from 190 Aui? 1.5, '64. 
Wd. 2d B. Run; diedi.t Al. x. Sept. 18, '62 
Wd. N. .M. X roads; killed 2d B. Run. 
To Art'y Aug. 1, '62. 


Wm. McF,.rland 


Killed in action 


Missing SoutTi ounta'n. 


George Mi-Lain 


Exp. service 


Wd. and pr. Fiederick^burg. 


John McLeister 








Disability Nov. i, '61 ! 
Re-enlist Vet 


Wd. and pr. Fredericksburg. 

To "E " 190; disc'd Tune 5, '6.5; rr. '64. 


Edward Miller 

George M lltr. 


christian Moorhead... 
John Murptu' 


Killed by accident 

Disability May 23, '62.. 


Kihed by companion Sept. 25, '61. 


John Quinn. .. 
Valenuue Quenzler. . . 


Wd. and pr. Fred'b'g; tr. to V R C. 
Wd. and pr. Fred'b'g; to 190; disc'd end 


Re-enlist Vet 


Thomas Ray 


By transfer 

Exp. service 


of war. 
To "E " 190; disc'd for wds. June 8, 65; 


Samuel Eedfern 


pr. '64. 
Detached. 


Samuel Keichert 


By transfer 


To 190; disc'd end of war. 


Robert Simpson 


Kiled in action 

Missing in action 

Deserted date unk. . , . 
Disability Den. 3, '62. . . 

Deserted date unk 

Exp. service 

Sec. War Oct. 24, '62.. 
Disability Feb. 17, '63.. 

Killed in action 

Exp. service 


Killed Gaines Mills. 

Missing Bristoe Station Oct. 14, '6.3. 

Det'd to Signal Corps Aug. 29, 61. 

Killed Fredericksburg. 
Wd 2d BuURu . 


James Shieffer 

George Shoemaker 

Thomas Skidmore... 

Edward Stevens 

Adam Strauser 

Theodore Spaulding.. 
Richard L. Tell 




Re-enlist Vet.... 


To " E" 190; died pr. date unknown. 


Philip Weaver 

Charles Woodall 


Disability Oct. 14, '62.. 
Disability Oct. 22, '62 


To U. S. Art'y Nov. 25, '62. 







MUSTER-OUT ROLL OF "E" COMPANY. 



MA.ME AKD RANK. 



Captains. 

John J. riorn 

Francis Schelling. . 

1st Lieutenants. 



Muster-in. 



Eanli. 



Edward Keily 

James C. Faclienthal. 

2d Lieutenant. 

Wm. Lind 

1st Sergeants. 

John Haggerty 

James Johnson 

Wm. R. Kidd 

Sergeants. 

Theodre Hance 

William Kuch 



John Herp 

Wm. F. Keller. 



Reuben L. Miller.. 

Henry Hess 

James Cummiskey. 
John Williams 



Corporals. 



Captain. . 
1st Lieut. 



2d Lieut. 
Sergeant, 



1st Serg.. 
Corporal. 
Sergeant. 



Corporal 



Private . 



Corporal. 



Private.. 



Aug. 10. '61 



James Taylor 

Chr. F. < estrincher. 

Wm. I. Keuhner 

Jesse Koseberry 

David Campbell 

James H. Coffin 

Samuel Tolan 

Daniel H. Laubach. . . 

Aaron Rossler 

Geo . Derhammer — 
George Ketchledge . . . 



Jackson H. Messinger . 

Wm. H. Weaver I Recruit. 



Date. 



DISCHARGED. 
How and When. 



REMARKS. 



Resigned Feb. 17, '62 

Esp. service P. Caot. Mar. 10, '62; wd. 2d Ball Run; 

tr. to Y. R. Corps Sept. 1, '63. 



Musicians. 

Thomas Duffin.. 
John A. Wolf... 



Wagoner. 
Aaron E. Bsisel . . . 

Privates. 
Robert G. Barnes. 



Joseph Barros.. 
John Barry — 
Lackboli Beck. 



Max Bertrand 

Joseph Bird 

Wm. H. Bodley — 

John H. Buran 

Daniel Biownell... 
Jacob M. Buchter. 

Ramsay Case 

Hoffman Connor. . . 
Chatles Custard... 
James Devine 



Wm. Dice 

Casper E'^helsteiu. . . 

Daniel Eli 

Josiah Etileman — 
San-lers Everett — 

Adam Fisher 

PaulH Fishel 

Wm Frederick 

Jarvis Gould 

David H. Graham... 

Math iVf Haase 

Wm. Handwork — 
Wm. F. Uandwoik. . 



Musician 



Wagoner 



Privat^e... 



May 18, 
\ug. 10, 



Disability Jan. 17, '6-3. 
Exp. service 



Disability Dec. 23, '63. 

Exp. service 

Dis. wds., Dec. 15, '62. 



P. 1st Lt. Mar. 14. '62; wd. Antietam. (?) 
P. 2d Lt. Mar. 14, '62; 1st Sgt. Oct., '61; 

1st Lt. May 1, '63; Bvt. Capt. for 

G-^ttvsburg. 
P. 1st Sgt Jan. 1, '63; 2d Lt. May 1,'63. 



Detatched. 

P. 1st sgt.; pr. Gaines Mill. 

P. 1st Sgt. Apr., '62; wd. 2d Bull Run. 



'61 



Disability Apr. 24, '62.. 
Exp. service 

Deserted Sept. 30, '6 . 
Exp. service 

Missing in action 

By transfer 

Died Nov. 1, 1861 

Exp. service 

Dis wds. Dec.'l5, '62.. 

Oied Dec. 20, '63 

Killed in action 

Died of wds. Oct. 16, '62 
Jy transfer 

Killed in action 

U.ed Dec. 27, '63 



Exp. service. 



Re-enlist Vet 

Deserted Sept. 24, '61 . 

25, '62. 

Re-en'ist Vet 

Exp. service 

Deserted Oct. 5, '61.. . 

By transfer 

Exp. service 

Dis;^bilicy Apr. 12, '63 
Deserie 1 June 1, '63. 

Exp. service 

Deserted Aug. 21, '62 

Killed in action 

Exp. service 

Killed in action 

Desert' d Feb. 3, '63. . 

Re-enlist Vet 

Killed in action 

Died Sept. 7, '62 

By transfer 

Deserted Aug. 24, '61. 
Disability Mar. 3, '63 

Exp. service 

Killed in action 

Exp. service 



P. Sgt. Sept 1, "63; wd. Mechan'ville, 

Antietam, Bristoe Station and Spott- 

sylvania; ab. atM-o. 
P. Sergeant. 
P. S.:t.; wd 2d Bull Run; to V. R. Corps 

Sept 1, '63. 
P. Sgt.; wd. and pr. Fredericksburg. 
P Sgt. Jan. 1, '63. 
P. Sgt.; prisoner; date unknown. 
P. Corp'I and Sgt.; wd. Antietam and 

Fredericksburg . 

'Ussing at Gaines Mill. 
I'o Signal Corps Sept. 15, '63. 
Died at Camp Pierpont. ' 

P. Corporal. 

P. Corporal. 

P. Corporal. 

P. Curporal; wd. 2d Bull Run. 

P. Corp'I; died at Warrington Junction. 

P. Corporal; killed at Antietam. 

P. Lorp'l; killed at Spottsylvania May 

11, '64. 
P. Corporal; wd 2d Bull Run 
To 190; p. Corporal; died, date unkn. 



Killed at Gaines Mill, 
etached; died at Washington, D. C. 

P. Mus. and Corp'I; tr. to V. R. Corps 
Feb. 19, '64. 

To " A " 190; died pr. at Saulsburv Jan- 
£6, '65. 



Wd. Mechanics ville; to 190 (no record 
in 190); surv. war. 



To 6th U. S Cavalry Deo. T, '62. 
Tr. from "K" Co. 



Wd. Fredericksburg; ab. at M-o. 

KiUedat2dBullRun. 

Tr. fr. "K" Co.; wd. Spottsylvania 

Mav It, '64; ab. at M-o. 
Killed at 2d Bull Run. 

Wd. Antietam; died May, '64. 
Ki led Mechanicsville. 
Wd. 2d Bull Run; died of wounds. 
Trans to P. M.; date unknown 



Tr. fr. " K " Co.; killed ai Antietam. 
Killed at Gaines Mill. 
Killed at Fredoricksburg. 
Wd. 2d Bull Run. 



MUSTER-OUT FIOLL OF "E" COMPANY— Cojitimied. 



NAME AND RANK. 



Privates. 

Wm. natden 

John }i . Uuinmel 

Win. Ivy 

Warren H. Joliae... 
Edward Kimble. . . . 
Josiah Kirkendall. . . 

Sidney Kucliuer 

Jeremiah Kleiu 

John W. Leffel 

Edward Leidy 

Jacob Leidy 

Barney Maloy 

John May 

Thomas McCormick. 

Jacob Moyer . ... 

Jacob Muffly 

Amadus Miller 

Georgre A . Miller 

Fort \y. Nicholas 

Robert Nolf 

John Nuunemacher. 

Michael O'Brien 

Sullivan Otto 

Isaac Peifer 

James Pilkington... 

Wm. Raub 

Calvin Heed 

George Retzler 

Lewis Roth 

Paul Roth 

Thomas Ruth 

Wm. H. Santee 

Lewis H. Sassaman. 

Lewis Schenk 

Wm. Schooley 

Philip Seagler 

Patr'ck Shine 

Stephen Sholes 

Christian F. Smith.. 

Joseph Sny<ier 

Peter S. Snyder. ... 

Urias Stahr 

Lewis Stein 

Robert W. Surrlll... 

Benj Tallman 

Charles R. Teelin... 

Samuel Traugh 

Wm. Traugh 

Joseph Trexler . . , . . . 

Benj.Troxell 

George Troxell 

John P. Troxell 

George Walls 

Robert Warner 

John Waucht 

John B.Wilson. 

Albert Wi=e 

Robert White 

John Worman 

John Younkins 



Muster-in. 



Rank. 



Private . 

Recruit. 

Private . 

Recruit . 
Priva.e. 



Recruit. 
Piivaie. 



Recuit 
tTivate . 



Recruit. 

Pr»vaie . 



Recruit, 
.^rivate. 



Recruit, 
r'rivate . 



Recruit. 
Private. 



Recruit. 
Private . 



Recruit. 



Private. 
Recruit. 



Private . 



Recruit . 



Date. 



r.Ug. 10,'61. 



July 22, '64. 
Aug. 6, '(53. 
Aug. 10, '61 

Feb. 15,'64. 
Aug. 10, '61. 



Jan 22, '64. 
Aug. 10.'61. 



Jan. 22, '64. 
Aug. 10,'61. 



Jan. 25, '64 
Aug. lu,'61 



Jan. 22,'65 
xug 10, 61 



reb. 8, '64. 
-A-ug. 10, '6 1 



Jan. 18, 64. 
Feb. 22, '64. 
Aug. 10,'ul. 



Jan. 22, '64 
Aug. 10,'61 



Feb. 6, '64. 

Aug. 10, '61. 
May 18, '64 

Aug. 10. '61 



Feb. 8, '64. 



Deserted June 1, '63.. 

Exp . service 

Desert d Aug 11, '01. 

By transfer 

Deserted Nov. 27, 't3. 

iJy transfer 

Disability Mar. 22, 'G4. 

By transfer 

Exp. service 

Died Oct. 2, '62 

Reenlist Vet 

Kxp. service 

Disability Oct. 6, '62. 
Disability Dec. 6, '02.. 

Exp. service 

Disability Jan. 1, '62. 
Jan. 2, '64.. 

Killed in action 

By transfer 

Disabilicv Jan. 21, '62. 

Exp. service 

Killed inaction 

By transfer 

Disability Aug. 1, '03. 
Deserted Sept. 5, '62. . 
By transfer 



DISCHARGED. 
How and M'hen. 



Exp. service 

Died D c. 15, "62. 
Killed in action . 



Exp. service. . 
Re-enlist Vet. 



Deserted Sept. 5, '62. . . 

By transfer. 

Disability Oct. 15, '02. 

lixp. service 

Died June 14, 1862 

By transfer 



Deserted Oct. 1, 'o2 

Exp. seivice 

Disaoility Mar. 26, 'C3, 



Re-enlist Vet 

Exp. service 

By transfer 

Re-en'ist Vet 

Deserted Aug. 21, '62 
Re-enlist Vet 



Exp. service 

Killed in action 
By transfer . 



Deserted July 26, '62. 

Exp. service 

By transfer 



REMARKS. 



Detached to Artillery. 

To 190; discharged by Sec'y of War. 

To Navy Feb. 6, '64. 

(Troveloti Aug. 29, 'C2. 

to 190; discharged by Sec'y of War. 

Detached to Navy. 

To " A " 190; discharged June 28, '65. 

Wd. Mechanicsville and 2d Bull Run, 



Killed at Fredericksburg. 

r'o 190; discharged by Sec'y of War. 

Wd. at Fredericksburg. 

issing at Fred'Ksburg ; tr. fr. "K"' Co. 
To 190; discharged by Seo'y of War. 



To 190; discharged by Sec'y of War. 
To Bat. " a " 2d U. S. Art'y Oct. 24, '62. 

Wd. 2d B. R. and S. M'tn; died of wda. 

Xilled at r rederioksburg. 

Allied at Todds Tavern. 

vVd.. date unknown; tr. to V. R. Corps 

Sept. 1, '63. 
To "A" 190; di-ehareed June 21, '65. 
Co 190; (no recora in 190;. 



To 190; discharged by Sec'y of War. 
Wd. at Mech'ville; discharged for was. 
Detached. 

Detacned to Signal Corps. 
L'o 19 '; discharged by Sec'y of War. 
To 190; discharged by Sec'y of War. 

Wd. Fredericksburg; discharged for 

wds.; tr. fr "K" Co. 
To '• A " 190; pr.; died Jan. 12, '65. 
tr fr. "K " » o.; ab. in arrest at M-o. 
To 190; discharged by Sec'y of War. 
Died Jan. 27, '64. 

To " A " 190; discharged June 28, '65. 

l'o " A " 190; v,-d. Mech'ville; pr. Aug. 
19, '64; discharged June 7, '65. 

Tr. to Vet Res. Corps Mar. 5, '64. 

Killed at 2d Hull Run. 

L'o '-A" 190; pr. Aug. 19, '64; dis- 
charged June 6, '65. 

To Bat "B " Second U. S. Oct. 24. '62 

To 190; (no record in 190); discharged 
by cecreiary of War. 

To Vet. Res. Corps Sept. 15, '63. 
l'o Navy Feb. 6, '64. 

To •■ A" 190; died in pr. Jan. 21, '64, at 
Sau.sbury. 



MUSTER-OUT ROLL OF ^'F" COMPANY. 



NAME AND RANK. 



Captain. 

Andrew G. Oliver.. 

Ist Lieutenants. 

John W. Kress 

Chill W. Hazzard... 

Thomas Linn 

2d Lieutenants, 

Henry D. J. Bell,... 
Johti P Thomas.... 

1st Sergeant. 

Watson Muse 



Captain. . 



Ist Lieut. 
2d Lieut. 



Sergeants. 

Wm. Fox 

John Car-i()ti 

James M. Davis 

Augustus E. Hessler. . 



Alex. Bayne 

Joseph M. Ecliley. 



Abram Gross, 
John Urich... 



1st Sergt. 
Sergeant 



Private.. 

Sergeant. 
Corporal. 

Private,, 



Unk 

Private. 



Corporals, 

George A. Campbell, , . 

John C. Sykes 

Eben G. !?mith 

Daniel Coughenour... . 

Wm. D. Jones 

Nelson Mathews 

George H. Baer 

Wm. Billett .. 

Theod .re Campbell. . . 



Christopher Neff, 
Musicians. 



Augustus Fox. 
Wm. Smith 



Privates. 



Robert Axton 

Eli Applegate 

Samuel Applegate. 



Vincent Applegate . . . 

Calvin Baer 

Jacob Baldwin 

Hugh Bayne 

Jeremiari Brubaeker. 



Allen Campbell. 



John Campbell 

Humphrey Carson., . 

James Caull 

James ( hapman 

Samuel W. Collins.. 

James Collins 

John M. C. Cravens. 

Samuel Cravens 

Jacob Culp 

Oliver 'ulp 

John W. Dutton 

Henry Eisle 

George Kvans 

Joshua Fillmore 

Finlej Foster 

William Foster 

John W. Fex 

Louis Ghems 

James Halfin 

John Henderson 

Theodore Hoogh 

John Hoover 



Muster-in. 



Rank. 



Unk. 



Date. 



DISCHARGED. 
How and When. 



REMARKS. 



Aug. 10. '61. Exp. service JAb. D. S. at M-o ; wd. Mechanicsville. 

" (Resigned Sept. 10, '61.. 

" jBy transfer 1st Lt. Sept. 10. '61 ; Capt "1" Co. April 

i 20, 'OH; wd. Fr>-derifksburtr. 
Unknown.. Resigned July 31, "63. 1st Sgt.; 1st Lt. Apr, 20, '63; wd. F'd'b'g. 

Aug. 10, '61. Resigned Nov. 15, '62. . jcom'y Sgt. Aug. 31, '61; 2d Lt. Sept, 10,'61 
" Exp. service ;2d Lt. April 20, '63, 



Corporal. 
Private.. 



Recruit. 

Unk 

Private. 



Recruit. 
Private . 



Recruit. 
Private . 



Unknown.. 
Aug. 10, '61. 



Disability May 7, '62.. 
Disability July 8, '63. 

Exp. service 

Re-enlibtVet 

Disability Sept., '62 ., 
Re-enlist Vet 



Killed in action. 

Exp. service 

Killed in action. 
Exp. service 



. '64. 

nLTinown . 
Aug, 10, '61, 



Killed in action 

Disabi ity Jan. 13, '63, 
Re-enlist Vet 



Exp, service. 



Re-enlist Vet . 



Disability Feb. 28, '63. . 
Died of wds. date unk 
Re-enlist Vet , 

Exp. service , 

Killed in action 

Disability Feb. 1.3, '63 . 
Disability Dec 30, '61 . . 
Re-enlist Vet 



By transfer 

Disability date unk.. 
Disability Jan. 16, '63, 
Re-enlist Vet 



Feb. 22, '64 . By transfer 
Aug. 10, '61. Unknown 



Deserted July 1.5, 'f3.. 
'Deserted Dec. 17, '6'.. 
iDeserted Jan. 20, '62. . 
Disability Nov. 29, '63. 
By transfer 



Killed In action 

lRe-°nlisr Vet 

[Disability April 3, '63. 
i By transfer 



Aug. 2.3, '61. 
Aug. 10, '61. 



Re-enlist Vet 

Killed in action. 



1st Sgt. April 20, '63. 



Wd. N. M. X roads. 

Wd. Antietam; to 190 (no record in 190); 

surv. war. 
Pr. Aug. 28, '63, 
Sgt.-Maj.Apr. 20, '63; to "G" 190: 2d Lt. 

Sept 19, '64; never mus'd; pr. Aug. 19, 

'64: disc'd June 28, '65. 
Corp'l "G" 190; ab. s at M.-o; fr. 190, 
Sgt. -'K'' and "B" 190 (no rec. in 190), 



Wd. Gaines Mill; killed Antietam, 

Pr. and wd. Fredeiicksbuig. 

Killed Fredericksburg; P. Sergeant. 

Wd 2d Bull Run, 
Killed N A. X roads, 
Pr. .Aug. v8, '62. 

Tu"G"l90:pr.Aug.l9,'64;d'dJune28,'65 
To "G" 190; disc'd June 28, '65; wd, N, 

M. X roads. 
Wd, Fredericksburg. 



To "G" 190; disc'd June 28, '65. 

To 190; disc'd June 28, 65; tr. fr, "K" Co. 



Wd. N.'VT.x roads. 

To "G" 190; pr. Aug. 19,'C4; disc'd June 

1.3, '65. 
Wd. 2d Bull Run; detached. 
Killed Antietam. 



Wd,N,M.Xrds., Antietam and F'd'b'e; 

to "G"' 190; pr, Aug. 19, '64; disc'd 

June 28, '65. 
Wd. Antietam; to "G" 190; pr. Aug, 19, 

"64; disc'd June 28, "65. 
To 190; disc'd by Sec. War. 

Wd.N. M. X r^ads. 

To "G" 190; disc'd June 28, '65. 

To 190; di=c'd by Sec. War. 
Not on Muster-out Roll, 



To U. S. Cavalry Oct. 28, '62. 

To "B ' Fifth U. S. Ait'y Aug. 1, '62. 

Killed N. M. Xr^ ads. 

To "G" 190; disc'd June 28, '65. 

Wd. 2d Bull Run. 

To Sixth U. S. Cav"v Oct. 28. '62. 

To Second U S. Art'y Dec. 9, '62. 

To 190; di-c'd by Sec. War. 

To Second US. Art'y Dec. 9, '62. 

To "G" 190; disc'd June 28, '65, 

Killed N. M. X roads. 



MUSTER-OUT ROLL OF "F" COMPANY.— Continued, 



NAME AXD R \NK. 


Muster-in. 


DISCHARGED. 
How and When. 


T? EM \RKS 




R:ink. 


1 Date. 




Privates. 
Thomas Househalder.. 


Private.. . 

Recruit.. 

Unk 

Private... 

Unk 

Private . . 

Recruit.. 
Private.. . 

Unk 

Private.. 
Recruic. 

Unk 

Private... 

Unk 

Recruit . . 

Unk 

Private.. 

Recruit.. 
Private.. 


Aug. 10, '61. 

, '64.... 

Unknown. . 
Aug. 10, '61. 
Unknown . 
Aug. 10, '61. 

Aug. 21, '61. 
Aug. 10, '01. 

Unknown.. 
Aug 10, '61. 
Aug. 23, '61. 
Unknown.. 
.\ug. 10,'61. 
Unknown.. 
Sept. 1. '61. 
Feb 2, '64.. 
Unknown.. 
Aug. 10, '61. 

Feb. 17, '64. 
Aug. 10, '61. 


By transfe'" 


To Second U. S. Art'y Dec. 9, '02. 

Killed Spott'y'a May 11, '64; re-enl. Vet. 
Killed Antietim. 


James Howard 

Alfred Hurst 


Disability Dee. 30, '01.. 
Killed in action 

By transfer 


Cliarles Jones 


Tlieophilus Jones 


To "B' Fifth U. S. Aug. 1. '62. 
To Second U. S. Art'y Dec. 9, '62. 
To "G" 190: pr. died of wds. at Peters- 
burg Aug. 7, '64. 

Wd. 2d Bull Run. 






Re-enlist Vet 


George Kleinshirts . . . 


Disability Jan. 31, '63. . 
UisibilityNov. 3, '62., 
Re-enlist Vet 


James Lyons. . 


To "G" 190; pr. June, '64; surv. war. 
To "'G" 19ii; disc'd June 28 '03" wd 






Samuel Malone 


Disability Sept. 26, '63. 
DisabilityMar. 10, '63.. 
Re-enlist Vet 


Gaines Mill. 
Wd. and pr. N. M. X roads. 


Clifford Mattox 


To 190 (no rec. in 190): (A Clifford Mattox 
on Roll of Honor May 22, '64); sup. to 
have surv. war. 

To I'jO; disc'd by Sec. War. 






Wm. McAndrey 

vVm. McCready 

John McCrolus 


Died date unknown. . . 
Deserted Jan. 30, '63... 
Disability Aug. 13, '62.. 
Exp. service 


Wd. Fredericksburg. 

To 190; disc'd June 28 '65 


Joseph McPeely 

John E. Mclntyre 

A'lam E. McKelvy 

Robert McKelyy 

Wm. McQuancy 


lie-enlist Vet 


By transfer 


To 19 i; disc'd by Sec. War. 




Re-enlist Vet 

Died Dec. 14, '61 

Exp. service .. 

Deserted date unk 

Dec. 30. '62 


Wd. Antietam; to "G" 190; pr. .lUg. 19, 

'64; disc'd June 28, '65. 
\t Camp Pierpont. 
Wd. South Mountain. 


Charles Morrow 

George Murry 


Cause of disc, unk ; wd 2d B Run. 


Emanuel Neff, Sr 


Re-enlist Vet 


To "G" 190; disc'd June 2S, '65. 




By transfer 


To Sixth U. S. Com'y Oct. 28, '62. 


John Neff 






John Oble 


Died date unknown, . . 
Disability Feb. 14, '63.. 
liy transfer 




John Orelly 




Wm. Painter 


To 190; ab. s. at M-o. 


Wm Pamler 




Disc'd by Sec. War date unknown. 




Exp . service 


Detached to Art'y. 


Abram Pennman 

John Prescott . . . 


Suicided Aug., '62 

Exp. service 




James Redmond 

Robert Russell 


Died of wds. Oct. 6, '62. 

Exp. service. 

Re-eiillst Vet 


Wd 2d Bull Run. 

Wd. Fredb'g; to V. R. C; ab. at M-o. 

To "G" 190; disc'd June 2S, '6j. 


Samuel Sloan 


Disability Feb. 4, '63. . 
Re-enlist Vet 




George Soles . . 


To "G" 190; disc'd June 28, '65. 


Nelson Soles 


Disability date unk... 
For wds. Jan 6, '63... 

By transfer 

Diedofwds. Feb. 12,'63 
Deserted date unk . . 


Wd. Antietam. 


John Steiss 


To 190; disc'd bv Sec. War. 


John Stoneman 

George Strohm 

Benjamin Tipton 

John Tyler 


Wd. Fredericksburg. 

Wd. 2d Bull Run; died May 4, '64. 


Killed in action 

Died of wds. Dec. 27, '63 


Killed Antietam. 


J )hn Umberger 


Wd. Fredericksburg. 

Tr. to 43d Penn. April, '6i. 


George Webster 

Eli Wilson 


Disability June 2, '62.. 

Died Jan. 22, '6? 

Died Dec. 14, '6: 


Died at Richmond; pr. Fredericksburg. 
Died ac C amp Pierp ut. 


Robert Whigham 



MUSTER-OUT ROLL OF "G" COMPANY. 



NAME AND RANK. 


Muster-in. 


DISCHARGED. 
How and When. 


REMARKS. 




Rank. 


Date. 




Captains. 
Charles W. Diven..... 


Captain. . 

1st Lieut. 
~M Lieut. 
Sergeant. 

1st Set. 
Sergeant. 

Corporal. 

Private . . 

Unk 

Private.. 

Corporal. 


Aug. 10, '61. 

Unknown. . 
Aug. 10, '61. 

Oct. 18,'61. 
Aug. 10,'61. 

" 

Feb. 27, '64. 
Mar. 1, '64. 
Aug. i0,'61. 

Feb. 15, '64. 
Aug. 10, '61. 


By promotion 


Major Apr. 19, '64; Col. 200 Penn.; Bvt. 
Brigadier-General. 

Killed N. M.X rds; 1st Lieut. Sept. 1 '61, 
2d Lieut. Sept. 1,'61; Ist Lieut. May 1,'63. 

1st Sgt. Oct. 10, '62; 2d Lieut. May 1,'63; 
wounded N. M. X roads and Fred'b'g. 

Wd . N. M. X roads and Antietam. 
P. 1st Sergeant. 


Ut. Lie^itenants. 

James K. Miller 

Wm. W. Arnold 

George Huber 

2d Lieutenants. 

Nathan Carman 

Ist Sergeants. 

James L. McClure — 
George W. Ebaugh .. 

Sergeants. 

Henry Gise 


Res. Sept. 1. '61 

Killed in action 

Exp. service 

Diedof wds Oct. 9, '62 
Exp. service 


Re-enlist. Vet 




John Conway 

George C. Bush 

Isaac D. Cullemeny. . 

Corporals. 

Charles Palmer 

Hiram Kendig 


P. Sgt.; wd. Spottsylvania May 8. '64. 
Wd. Fred'b'g; to " F " 190; died of wds. 


Exp. service 

Disability May 26, '62. 

May 21, '62. 

Exp. service 


date unknown. 
Wounded May 8, '64. 

Wd. N. M. X roads and Fred'b'g. 


Augustus L. Hursh. 

Henry Balsi 

John D. Campbell — 
Ambrose Ensminger.. 

Jacob Shannon 

Daniel D. Bailey 

Christians. Wagner.. 

George Writer 

Eli Harnish 


Di.sability Mar. 4, '63. 

Ke-enlistVet 

Exp. service 


Wd. Au?. 27, '62; ab. at M-o. 






Died of ■wd8.'Oct.'8,'62. 

Killed in action 

Exp. service 


Wd.'& pr. Gaines Mill; tr. fr. "K"Co. 
Killed bouth Mountain. 


Disability Feb. 20, '63 

Exp. service 

Disability Mar. 4, '63.. 

Mar. 80, '64. 
Re-enlist Vet 


Wounded South Mountain. 




Wd. and pr. N. M. X roads. 




P. Drum-Major Mar. 22, '62. 


Musicians. 




Daniel Kepman . . . . 

Wagoners, 

William Gibbs 

William Wetzel 

Privates. 

George Albert 

Paris W. Albert 


Private.. 
Wagoner 

Private... 

Recruit.. 
Private.. 

Recruit.. 
Private . . 


To 190 (no record in 190). 


Disability Oct. 20, '62 
Mar. 15,'63. 

Exp. service 

Dii^abilityJan. 26, '63. 

Exp. service 

Disability Feb. 20, '63. 
Unknown. . 


Wounded Gettysburg. 


Wash. Alexander 




William Bettinger 


Exp. service 

Disability f)ct. 10, '63. 

Feb. 2;^ '63. 

July 18, '62 

Re-enlist Vet 

Exp. service 


Wd. and pr. N.M. X roads; ab. at M-O. 


Eredericli Bongey 

Samuel Breneman... 

George B.Brown 

Michael , Burger 


Wounded, date unknown. 

Ft " K " Co. to "F"' 190; pr. Aug. 1,'64. 
Wounded Fredericksburg. 


Dibubility Jan 23, '63.. 




Amas Day 

John A. buffleld 

Winfleld J. Duffleld... 

William Eaton 

William K. Eaton.... 

David Ehrman 

Wilsi.n Everall 

James Eiltenberger. . . 

Wilson (*. Fox 

William R. Fox 

John B. Fry 


To " F " 190; discharged June 28. '65. 




To 190 (no record in I'JO); wounded '64. 


Re-enlist Vet 


Fr. "K" Co.to "P" 190; died pr. at 


Exp. service 

Disability Aug. 10, '61. 
Aug. 29, '61. 

Exp. service 

He enlist Vet 


Saulsbury Nov. 12, '64. 
To Vet. Res. Corps. 

Died. 

To 190 (no record in 190). 


Exp. service 

Died of wds Oct. 2.'62. 

Exp. Fervice 

Di.«ability Sept. 7. '62. 
D'dof wds. Sept. 18, '62 
Disability July 18, '62. 
Deserted Oct. 21. '62.. 
Disability Feb. 20, '63 
By transfer 


Fr. " K " Co.; deta'-hed. 
Wd. Antietam; fr. " K " Co. 


Arthur E. Fulton 

Henry Gable 


Pr. Gaines Mill. 
Wounded Antietam. 


John Gantz 

Moses Gardner 

Arnum Gegler 


To " F " 190; disc'd June 28, '6V 


Michael Haley 

Solomon C. Hampson 
Jacob Hanefins 


Re-enlist Vet 

Dis^abihty JulylS, '63.. 
Deserted Aug. 10, '61. 
Re-enlist Vet 


To " F " 190; disc'd June 28, '65; pr. '64. 
To "F "190; disc'd; June 28. '65. 


Henry Harman 

Nicholas B. Heim 


D'dof wds. Oct. 3, '62. 


Wounded Antietam. 

Fr. " K " Co.; wd. Fredericksburg. 







i 



MUSTER-OUT ROLL OF " G " COUFA'NY.— Continued. 



NAME AND RANK. 



Privates. 

Cornelius Hoover . . 
Frederick Ingles.. . 

James Isenberg 

Jacob Kaylor 

George Kenny 

Andrew Kiuter 

Washington Laird. . 
Christian C . Leib . . . 
George W. Lowe... 

Ira E. Lowe 

Tolbert Lowe 

Edward Mackinson 

John A. Marks 

James Martoe 

Wesley McCleary.. 
Archibald McMonagle 
Wm. M 'ntzbeiger... 

George Messmore 

Charles Montgomery. 

James Morrison 

Charles Moyer, 

Wm. H. Myers 

James Osborn 

Jeremiah Parison 

James Quimberg. 

John Rorabough 

Sawin 

Orlando Simpson 



Muster-in. 



Rank. 



Augustus Shaeflfer. . . 

Joseph Shaeffer 

David Shirk 

Samuel SKipt«er 

George W. Smith 

Henry Smith 

Richard Sneath , 

George F. Steading.. 

James Stevenson 

Robert Stevenson 

Charles Stewart 

John Tennis 

David Torbert 

Adam Waltemeyer . . . 

John Waltemeyer 

Lewis Waltemeyer 

Peter Whalen . 

Thomas H.White 

Washington Williams . 

John Wisser 

Henry Zorger 



Private., 



Recruit. 
Private. 



Recruit. 
Private. 



Unk 

Private. 



Date. 



Aug. 10, '61. 



Deo. 30,'63. 
Aug. 10, '61. 



Jan. 15, '62. 
Aug. 10, '61. 



Unknown.. 
Aug' 10,'61. 



Recruit . 
Private.. 
Recruit. 
Private. 



DISCHARGED. 
How and When. 



Re-enlist Vet 

Deserted June 26, '63, , 
D'dofwds.Dec. 13,'6a 

Exp . service 

D'clofwds. Oct. 1, •62. 

Exp. service 

D'dofwds. Oct. 28,'62 
Re-enlibt Vet 



Deserted June 1, '63. 

Sept. 24, '63 

Exp. service 



Deserted Dec. 31, '63. 
Exp. service 



Died Nov. 3, '63 

Disability Mar. 20, '6i 

By transfer 

Disability Dec. 27, '62. 

Died July 4, '63 

Disability May 21, '62 

Exp. service 

Re-enhst Vet 



Died, date unknown. 

Re-enlist Vet 

Unknown 

Re-enlist Vet 



Exp. service. 



Disability Sept. 23, '62. 
Disability Oct. 15. '62.. 
Disability Mar. 6, '63.. 
Disability Feb. 20, '63 
D'dof wds. July 26, '62 
Re-enlist Vet 



Feb. 15, '64. 
.\ug. 10, '61. 
Unknown.. 
Aug. 10, '61. 



Unk 

Private . 



Unknown . 



D'sability Oct. 32, '62. 

Exp. service 

D'dof wds. Dec. 13,'f:2 

By transfer 

Disability Apr. 28, '63. 

Killed in action 

Disability June 19, '63. 
Jan. 18, '62. 

Exp. service 

Killed in action 



REMARKS. 



Aug. 10,'61. Exp. service. 



To " F " 190; pr. '64; disc'd June 88. '05. 

Wd. Mechanicsville; wd. & pr. Fred'b'g. 

Wounded at Antietam. 

Prisoner Aug. 28, '62. 

To 190 (no record in 190). 

To " F " 100; disc'd June 28, '65. 



Prisoner Fredericksburg. 



To 190 (no recoKl in 190). 
Wounded New Market Cross roads. 
Pr. N. M. X roads; wd. South Mountain. 



Wd. Fred'b'g; to "F" 190; d'd pr. Not. 

22, '64 at Saulsbury. 
Wounded Fredericksburg. 
To 190 (no record in 190). 

To " P " 190; died pr. Feb. 15, '65; pr. 
at Saulsbury. 



Corporal; pr. New Market Cross roads. 
Died. 



Wounded Aug. 38, '62 (?). 
To"F^'190;pr. d. Nov. 19,'64atSanlsb'y. 
To "F" 190; pr. d. Nov. 2,'&4 at Saulsb'y. 

Wounded Fredericksburg. 

Wounded and prisoner Fredericksburg. 

To 190; discharged June 28, '65. 

Killed Spottsylvania May 10, '64. 

Died; wounded Mechanicsville. 

Died. 

Prisoner Spottsylvania May 10, '64. 

Killed Fredericksburg. 



MUSTER-OUT ROLL OF "H" COMPANY. 



MA.ME AND R\.NK 


Muster-in. 


DISCHARGED 
How and When. 


REMARKS 




Rank. 


Date. 




Ca2)tains. 
Andrew J. Bolar 

Samuel L. Elder 

1st Lieutenants. 
Wm. H. H. Kern 


Captain. . 
1st Lieut. 

2d Lieut. 
1st Lieut. 

1st Sergt. 

Sergeant. 

Corporal. 
Private... 

Corporal. 

Private .. 

Musician 
Recruit . . 

Wagoner 

Private. . . 

Recruit.. 
Private . . 

Unk 

Private . . 

Unk 

Private . . 
Recruit.. 
Private . . 
Recruit.. 
Private . . 

Unk 

Private . . 


Aug. 10. 61, 

Oct. 16, '61. 
Aug. 10,'61. 

a 

Aprll,^ '68.. 
Aug.^l0,'61. 

Unknown.. 
Aug. 10, "61. 

Unknown . 
Aug. 10. '61. 
April, '62 
Aug. 10,'61. 
April, '62.. 
Aug.^l0.'61. 

Unknown.. 
Aug.^l0,'61. 


Disability for wounds 

Jan. 30, '64. 
Exp. service 

April28, '64 


Com. Maj. July 8, '62 (N. M.); wd. and 

pr. Fredericksburg, 
Com. Capt. July 8, '62; Capt.'Feb. 6, '64; 

iivt. Maj. for Wilderness. 

How dis. unkn : Com. 1st Lt. July 8,'62; 

1st Lt. Mar. 22, '64; wd. G.M. and F'b'g. 

Not on M-iu roll on return for Aug., '61. 

Com. 2d Lt. July 8, '62; not m't'd; pr. 
ijraines Mill. 

P. H>sp. Stew'd Nov. 8, '61; (see staff). 
Wounded May 8, '64. 

Wd. and pr. N. M. X roads. 
Wounded at Fredericksburg. 
Wounded at Fredericksburg. 
Wd. at Bristoe St'n; to 190; pr. Aug. 19, 

"64; discharged at end of war. 
Killed at Fredericksburg. 

Tr. to Vet . Res. Corps May 1 '64 


James T. Kelly 

2d Lieutenant. 
Franklin Harner 


Resigned Aug. 3, '63 . . 
Exp. service 


Sergeants. 


By transfer 


Thomas W. Dick 

Mowry T. Moorehead. 
Watson R. Bracken . . . 


Exp. service 

Disability Oct. 31, '62. 
Died of wds. ; date unk. 
Exp. service 








Re-enlist Vet 


John P. Griffith 

Corporals. 


Killed in action 

Exp. service 


John C. Lardin 


DisabiUcy Deo. 13, '62 . 
Exp. 'Service 


Prisoner Aug. 29, '62. 

Wd. 2d BuU Run; wd. and pr. F'burg. 






Samuel Cunningham.. 
George W Robertson 
Henry W. L. Drips.... 


Disability Dec. 26, '62. 

May 7, '63... 

Re-enlist Vet 


For wds.; wd. 2d Bull Run. 

For wda.; wd. N. M. X rds. and F'burg. 

To 190; (no record in 190); dis end of 


By promotion 


war; Com Sergt; (see staff;. 
P. Sgt Maj. and 1st Lt. "I" Co.; (see 




Exp. service 


"l"Co.). 


iSamuel H. McNett .... 


Re-enlist Vet 


Wounded N. M. X roads. 

To 190; d. pr. Jan. 17, '65, at Saulsbury. 

Wd. 2d BuU Run; pr. Fredericksburg. 

To 190; discharged at end of war. 


James D. Goal 

Musicians. 

James Sponevberger . . 

Samuel W. Drips 

Wm Wetzel 


Exp. service 

Deserted Aug. '61 

Re-enlist Vet 


By transfer 

Disability Feb, 25, '62. 

Dis. wds. Sept. 29, '62.. 
Dis. wds. Jan. 23, '63. 

Exp. service 

Killed in action 

Exp. service 


To 190; discharged Got. 16, '64. 


Wagoner. 

Edward Stephens 

Privates. 

Wm Altimus 

Wm W. Altimus 

Benjamin F. Angus... 
David W Barkley 


Wd. Mechanicsville and Gaines Mill. 
Wounded at South Mountain. 

Killed at Fredericksburg. 
Detached. 




Disabil . ; date unkn . . . 




Joseph Barry 

Valentine Barry 

Enoch Benson 

Foster Bracken 


To " E " 190; pr. ; d. at S'b'v Feb. 30, '65. 




To"R"190;pr; d in pr ;"<iatft nnkp , 


D. of wds. Nov. 12,'62. 
Disability June 20, '62. 


Wounded at Antietam." 

Wd. at Fredericksburg; detached. 


John N. Cameron 

JohnW. Campbell — 

Wm. M. Campbell 

John M. Carpenter. . . 
Timothy Connelly — 
George G. Cribbs 


Disability Aug. 22,"'62. 
Re-enlist Vet 


Detached. 

Prom "K" Co. 

To 190; died nr ; date unknown. 

Tr. from "K " Co.; detached. 


Disability Oct. 15, '63.. 

Exp. service 

By transfer 

Disability Mar 11. '62. 
Diedof wds. Jan.5,'63. 

Exp. service 

Killed in action.... .. . 

Disability for wounds. 
Exp service 


Detached . 

To " E " 190; died April 1, '65, at Camp 


Albert S. Devlin 

George W. Dick 

Thompson Dick 

Andrew J. Duncan 

A. Evans 


Parole, Aimapulis. 
Died at Camp Pierpont. 
Wounded at Fredericksbuig. 
Detached. 

Killed at 2d Bull Run. 
Date of discharge unknown. 






Robert C. Edlebute . . 

Joseph Falcon 

Samuel J. Ferguson.. 


Dis. wds. Nov. 10, '63 . 
Exp. service 


Wounded at South Mountain. 


By transfer 

Exp. service 


To 100; discharged at end of war. 
Wf'Uuded at Fredeiicksburg. 

Wd. 2d B. R.; to " E " 190; dis. end war. 


Wm. H. Gamble 


Disabilitv Dec. 30, '61. 


Jedidiah Grover 

John J. Grossmire. .. 
Jacob Grumbling 


nisabilityDsc. 28, '61 

Bv transfer 

Disability Dec 31. '62. 


To Fifty-first Penn. Oct. 29, 61. 



MUSTER-OUT ROLL OF "H" COMPANY— Con/m?<e<i. 



NAME AND RANK. 



Privates. 

Wm. Grumbling... 
Wm. M. Heddeu. . . 
Isaac J. Hamliu 

Alex. N. Hart 

Joseph D. Henderson. 
JapnerD. Hildebrand 

Thomas Hogan 

Wm. Junkius 

John Lawson 

Wm. Makin 

James Mardis 

George Martin 

Calvin Martin 

Benjamin May 

James McClure 

James McDonald . . . 
Michael McLau;rhlin 
Alex. R. McMillen., 

Joseph Mentzger 

Stohler Mentzger 

Wm. Mentzger 

Steward Meredith . . . 

George Murritts 

Henry Murritts 

Archibald Miller. .. 
David H. Oberdorf.. 
Francis Oberdorf... 
Harvey Oberdorf... 
Henry Painter 

Thomas Painter .... 

Alex. Ream 

Wm. Ream 

Wm. Reckord 

Bennet Rode 

Jeremiah H. Rode. . . 
Archibald M. Rodgers 
David S. Simpson. 
Bemadine B. Sherman 
Henry Sherman . , . . 
Wm. B. Somers... 

Oliver Sproul 

George W. Stouteagle 

James S. Stewart. . . 
Robert B. Stewart . 

Robert Stunkard 

John Swarts waller. . 
James E. Thomas . . 

James F . Tomb 

Henry Waliemeyer. 

Wm. Waltemeyer. . . 
John W . Williams . 
Joseph Williams ... 
Sanfnrd Williams... 
AbelnegoB. Wilson 
Andrew Wolf 



Muster-in. 



Eank. 



Privat" . 
{ecruit. 
Private. 

Private . 



Recru't 
Piiva.e. 



Recruit . 
Private 



Recruit . 
Private. 



Recruit. 
Private . 



Recruit . 
Private . 



Recruit. 
Private . 



Date. 



Aug. 10.'61. 
\pril, '62.. 
Aug. 10, '61. 

.\ug. 10, '61 



April, '62. 
Aug. 10, '61 



April, '68., 
.^ug. 10, '61 



April. '62.. 
Aug 10, '61, 



Oct., '62 
Aug. 10, '61. 



April, '62.. 
Mar. 19,'62. 
Aug. 10,'61 



Feb. 13,'64. 
Aug. 10. '61 



DISCHARGED. 
How and When. 



Exp. service 

Disability April 1, '68 
Re-enlist Vet 



Exp. service 

Disability Dec. 5, '62. . 

Exp. service 

Deserted July 15, '63. 
Exp . service 



Killed in action . 
Exp. service . . . 
Killed in action . 



Re-enlist Vet 

Disability Dec. 23, '61. 

By transfer 

Exp. service 



Killed in action 

Re-enlist Vet 

Diedof wds. July6,'62, 
Disability April 12, '63 
Died of wds.May 16. '64 
Disability Oct. 8, '62. . 

Exp. service 

Disability Oct. 15, '62 
KiUed in action 
Disability Dec. 24, '61. 

Killed in action 

Re-en'.ist Vet 



Dis. wds. Jan. 28, '63. 
Dis. wds. Oct. 22, 'o2. 
Di -ability date unkn. 

Killed in action 

Exp. service 



Dis. wds. Feb. 20, '63. 

By transfer 

Killed in action 

Exp. service 

Killed in action 

Re-enlist Vet 



Dis. wds. May 16, '63. 
Exp. service. ... . 

Disability Oct. 13, '64 

Killed in action 

Died Mar. 21, '62 . . . 

Exp. service 

Re-enlist Vet 



By transfer 

Re-enlist Vet 

Dis. wds. Oct. 13, '63. 
Exp. service 



Re-enlist Vet 



REMARKS. 



Wd. Mechanicsvllle and Gaines Mill; to 
190; discharged at end of war. 

Pr. Fredericksburg; wd. May 8, '64. 

Wounded at Fredericksburg. 
Killed at 2d Bull Rue 

Wd. Anti'^tam; killed Spottsylvania, 

Mav 12, '64. 
To 190; (no record in 190). 

To " F " 190; (deserted). 
Wounded June, '62. 

Killed at N. M. X roads. 
To 190; discharged at end of war. 
Wounded at N. M. X roads. 
Prisoner N. M. X mads. 
Wounded May 10, '64; re-enlist Vet. 

Wd. Mays, '62; absent sickatM-o. 

Wd. and pr. N.M.X rds.; k. Antietam. 

Killed at N. M. X roads. 

To 190; pr. Aug 19, '64; discharged at 

end of war. 
Wounded at Antietam. 

Wounded at Fredericksbu'-g. 

Pr. Fredericksburg; k. Spottsylvania. 



Wounded 2d Bull Run. 

Wd. N. M. X rds. and Fredericksburg. 

To " E " 193; died pr., date unknown. 

Killed at South Mountain . 

Wounded at Fredericksburg. 

KiUed at South Mountain. 

Ft. "K" Co.; to 190; died Nov. 19, '64; 

prisoner at Saulsbury. 
Wounded at Antietam . 
Wounded at Fredericksburg. 
Died at Georgetown. 
Wd. N.M. X rds.; k. at Spottsylvania. 
.^t Camp Pierpont. 

Wounded and prisoner at Pred'burg. 
To 190; prisoner Aug. 19,'64: discharged 

at end of war. 
To 190; pr.; how discharged unkown. 
To 190; (no rec. in 190); dis. end of war. 
Groveton, Aug. 29, '62. 
From "K" Co.; prisoner at Fred'burg. 

To "E" 190; prisoner Aug. 19, '64; dis- 
charged Juue 1, 'C5. 



MUSTER-OUT ROLL OF "1" COMPANY. 



NAME AND RANK. 



Captains. 

James C. Baker 

Chill W. Hazzard.... 

1st Lieutenants. 

Perry O. Etcheson... 
Wm. H. Myers 

2d Lieutenants. 

Samuel J. Cloyd 

Frank D. Stevens 



Muster-in. 



Rank. 



1st Sergeants. 



Wm. W. Woods.. 
Joseph R. Duffield. 



Andrew J. Demming 

Sergeants. 
Wm. D. Hancock 



David W. Stevens. 

David Long 

James M. Davis. . . 
John Rinker 



Corporals. 

Abraham D. Long. 
Wm. Copenhauer.. 



Benj. R. Martin... 
Joseph A . Thomas . 

John P. Butts 

Joseph Beers 

John B. Chilcoat... 
Wm. H. Harris.... 
EUas B. Wilson.... 



Musicians. 

John Harvey 

George Weigiit... 

Wagoner. 
John Gluck 

Privates. 
Henry Albert 



Seth Alexander 

Robert J. Allen 

Robert Y. Asken. . . . 

George S. Baker 

Josiah Baker 

Adam Berg 

Herman Beyf us 

John Black 

George B. Bowman. 

John Briggs 

Wm. H. Caro there. 



Thomas O. Cloyd. . 

John Cornelius 

Robert C. Davis 

John C. De Armit. . . 
Isaac H. Durboran. . 

James A. Elliott 

George W. Fleik 

James P. Giles 



Pe^er Hammon 

Aquilla lliiiK-ock 

Jeremiah Hancock. . . 

Wm. Harvey 

Thomas Hicks 

Augustus B. Hudson. 
Jaroes H. Huntsman. 

John E. Johns 

Alfred Kelly 

T. D. Kelly 

Thomas M. Kelly 



Captain. . 
•id Lieut. 



1st Lieut 
Private. . 



1st Sergt 
Private. . 



Sergeant. 
Private.. 



Corporal 
Private.. 



Date. 



DISCHARGED. 
How and When. 



April 7, '62. Died Aug. 7, '62. 
Aug. 10. '6t. Exp. service 



Musician 
Private.. 



Wagoner 



Private . 



Unk 

Private. 



April 7, '62. 
.\ug. 10, '61. 



April 7, '62. 

Aug. 10, '61. 
April?, '62. 



Aug. 10, '61. 
April 7, '6^. 



REMARKS. 



At Harrison's Landing. 
Wd. Fred'burg; Capt. April 20, '63; tr. 
fr. "F" Co. 

Resigned July 18, '62. 

Exp. service Tr.fr. Staff; 1st Lt. "I" Co. Apr. 20, '63. 



Disa'y wds. Jan. 7, '63 
By transfer 

Exp. service 

By transfer 



Killed in action 

,1862 

Exp. service 

Disability date unk . 



June 26, 1862. 
By transfer.. 



Aug. 10, 
April 7, 



Wd. Antietam (lost right arm); 2d Lt. 

April 14, '6-,'. 
1st Sgt. Apr. 14, '62; 2d Lt. Apr. 20, '63; pr. 

Gaines Mill; wd. F'd'b'g; to "D" 190; 

1st Lt.; n'rm.; pr. Jime 13, '64. disc'd 

June 2,«, '65. 
Fr. *'K" Co.; wd. date unknown. 
Fr. 1st Sgt. "K" Co.; 1st Sgt. 'T' Co. 

April 20, '63. 
To 190; pr. Aug. 19,'64 (no further rec). 



To 190; wd. N. M. X rds.; wd. at Peters- 
burg, '64; disc'd Mar. 28, '65. 
Wd. F'd'b'g; k. SpottsylvaniaMay8,'64. 
How disc'd unk. ; wd. N. M. X roads. 
Tr. to "F"Co.; wd. N. M. X roads. 
Died in hospital at Alexandra. 



How disc'd unknown. 

C'orp'l 'D" 190;pr. Jimel3,'64;dieddate 

unknown. 
Wd. Mechanicsville 
To 190; pr. Aug. 19, '64; date of dis. unk. 
Fr. "K" Co. 
ToCorp'l "D" 190; surv. war. 



Unknown 

By transfer 

Exp. service 

By transfer 

Disabilitj date unk 

By transfer To 190; disc'd May 16, '65 

Disability date unk. 



iDied Aug. 30, '62. 
iBy transfer 



Unknown.. 
April 7, '62. 

Aug. 10, '61. 
April 7, '62. 



Aug. 10, '61. 
April 7, '62. 
Aug. 10, '61. 
April 7, '62. 



Disability date unk. . . 



By transfer 

Disability , '62 

Died Aug. 26, '62 

Disability date unk. . . 

Disability , '62. . . . 

Disability May 20, '62. . 

By transfer 

Died , '63 

By transfer 

Exp. service 

Unknowji 

By transfer 

Unknown 

By transfer 

Exp. service 

Disability April 24, '63. 
By transfer 

Disability date unk . . . 
Killed at Fred"burtr. . . 
Disability date unk . . . 

Unknown 

Missing 

Deserted date unk 

By transfer 

Disability date unk. . . 
Died in hos'l date unk . 
Disability , '62 



To "D" 190; disc'd June 28, '65. 



To "D" 190; pr. Aug. 19, '64; diflo'd Mar. 

28, '65. 



In hospital. 



To "D" 190: killed in action Jime 18,'64. 
In hospital at Alexandra. 
To "D" 190; pr. Aug. 19,'64Cd'd date unk. 
Fr. "K" Co. 

To "D" 190; pr. Aug. 19, '64; disc'd May 

15, '65. 
On detached hos'l duty; disc'd end war. 
To "D" 190; pr. died at Saulsbuxy. 
Pr. N. M. X roads. 

To "D" 190; pr. Aug. 19, '64; d. at Saulsb'y 
Fr. "K" Co. 

To "D" 190; disc'd, '65; pr. '64. 
To "D" 190; pr. Aug. 19, 'W; diso'd May 
4, '65, to date Mar. 24, '65. 



Wd. Mechanicsville. 

In Pope's Campaign. 

To 190; pr. Aug. 19, '64; surv. war. 



MUSTER-OUT ROLL OF "I" COM.F ANY .—Continued. 



NAME AND RANK. 



Privates. 

Janaes Knobb.. 
Adam Leerd — 



George Leerd 

Benj. F. Liveringhouse 
John C. Liveringhouse 

Daniel Lock 

Jonathan Lock 



Michael Lynch 

Oliver C. Madden. 
Wm. Mai one 



Wm. A. McCallister. 

John McMullen 

Jacob Montgomery. . 

John J. Myers 

Isaac Naugle 

George M. Need 

George Neflf 

Peter Neflf 

Henry O'Neal 

La Fayette Palmer. . . 

Austin Ramsay 

Rob't Ramsay 

Thomas Ramsay, Jr. 

John Riley 

Wm. Reichert 



Alfred Rutten.. 

EUsha Rut' en. . 
Daniel Roberts. 



David Roberts 

Ed. H. ShaefPer, . . 
(Jeorge F. Shaeffer. 



Henry Shaeffer. 
John J. Sneath. 
W. C. Sneath.. 



Muster-in. 



Rank. 



Date. 



April 7, '62. 



Disability — 
iJy transfer. 



Aug. 10, 
April 7, 



Aug. 10, 
April 7, 



Aug. 10, '61 
April 7, '62 



Jesse Smith 

Ellis Snyder 

James A. Speaker... 

Simon Staubs 

Daniel Swartz 

Geo. P-. Taylor 

Thomas Vaughan 

Wm. Walls 



Unk.. .. 
Private. 



Unk 

Private. 



Henry C. Weight... 

John A. Whitman. 

Anthony Yohn 

George Toung 

Jacob A. Young... 



Unk 

Private. 



DISCHARGED. 

How and When. 



-, '62 



REMARKS. 



Disability, '62. 
By transfer 



To "D" 190; pr. Aug. 19, '64; di.sc'd May 

or June, '65; wd. 2d Bull Run. 
To"D"]90;pr.Aug. 19,'64;d'dJunel4.'65 
;To "D" 190; pr. Aug. 19, '64; d. at Saulsb'y 

'To "D" 190; disc'd at end of service. 
To '"D" 190; pr. Aug. 19, '64; died at 

Saulsbury . 
To "D" 190; pr. Aug. 19, '64; (no further 

record); tr. fr. "K" Co. 

To 190; pr. Aug. 19, '64; disc'd June 9, 

'65; wd. Gettysburg (?). 
Tr. fr. "K" Co. 



Unknown 

Deserted, '62 (?) .... 
Disability date unk. 

Unknown 

By transfer To 190; pr. at Saulsb'y; (no further rec.) 

Re-enlist Vet [Fr. "K" Co. to 190; disc'd end war. 

Exp. service iFr. "K" Co. 

Deserted April 8, '62. . 

By transfer 'To "A" Co . 

" ITo "D" 190; disc'd end of term. 

Disability date unk — | 

'Died date unknown. . . ;Buried at Alexandria . 

iBv transfer ITo "D" 190 (no rec. in 190). 

Died date unknown. . . Died in hospital at Alexandria; Injured 

I unloading wagon. 
Disability date unk . . . | 
Unknown 



Unknown. 
April 7, 'ti2 



JBy transfer — 

Unknown 

Deserted April 23, '62. 
By transfer 



LTnknown.. 
April 7, '6;i. 



Unknown . 
April 7, '0.1, 



Aug. 10, '61 
April 7, '62 



Disability '62 

Disability date unK.. . 

By transfer 

Disability date uuk.. . 

Deserted '62 . 

Deserted date unk . . . 
By transfer 



Unknown 

Died May 19, '63. 



To "D" 190; pr. Aug. 19, '64; disc'd April 
27, '65. 



To "D" 190; wd. Five Forks April 1,'65; 

disc'd June 25, '65. 
To Corp'l "D" 19C; disc'd Mar. 28, '65; 

wd. May 8. '64. 
Pr. Gaines Mill; wd. F'd'b'g; to *'D" 

190; pr. Aug. 19, '64; disc'd April, '65. 
To "D" 190; disc'd Mar. 29, '65; wd. 

Spottsylvania. 



To "D" 190 (no record in 190). 



To "D" 190: disc'd end of war; wd. 

Mechanicsville. 
Injured Jan. 1, '62; pr. June 27, '62; to 

"D" 190; pr. Aug. 19,'64; d'd end war. 



Tr. fr. "K" Co.; d'd in bosp'l May 19,'63. 
jDied Sept. 22, ''t;2. .'..'.'. {Buried at Alexandria, Va. 
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